THE BEST BRITISH DOUBLE AGENT OF WW2 #history #ww2 #shorts
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THE BEST BRITISH DOUBLE AGENT OF WW2 #history #ww2 #shorts

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Eddie Chapman was an English criminal and Army deserter who preferred the good life but did not honestly earn the means to achieve it. Yet he was a highly successful British double agent by the end of the Second World War who earned the respect of his former enemy.
His path from zero to hero was when the Germans found him locked up in prison following the defeat of the Channel Islands in 1940. Having transferred him to a French prison, he agreed to work for the Germans as a spy. Under the direction of Captain Stephan von Gröning, head of the Abwehr in Nantes, he was trained in explosives, radio communications, parachute jumping and other subjects in France and parachuted into Britain to commit acts of sabotage by blowing up an aircraft factory.
On landing, he went immediately to the British authorities to offer his services. After interrogation, MI5 decided to use him as a double agent against the Germans.
During the night of 29–30 January 1943, Chapman, with MI5 officers, faked a sabotage attack on his target, the de Havilland aircraft factory in Hatfield. German reconnaissance aircraft photographed the site, and the faked damage convinced Chapman's German controllers that the attack had been successful. MI5 also wrote and published a story in the British newspapers to reinforce this story.
He later returned to Germany and was awarded an Iron Cross. After teaching at a spy school in Norway, he returned to the UK. He fed Germany false information on the accuracy of their V1 missiles. After the war, he became friends with his former German spy chief.
On his retirement, MI5 expressed some apprehension that Chapman might take up crime again when his money ran out and, if caught, would plead for leniency because of his highly secret wartime service. As predicted, he mixed with blackmailers and thieves. He got into trouble with the police for various crimes, including smuggling gold across the Mediterranean in 1950.
More than once, he had a character reference from former intelligence officers who confirmed his outstanding contribution to the war effort.`
Chapman had his wartime memoirs serialised in France to earn money. Still, he was charged alongside co-defendant Wilfred Macartney under the Official Secrets Act and fined £50. A few years later, the whole issue was pulped when they were due to be published in the News of the World. However, his book The Eddie Chapman Story was eventually published in 1953.

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