The Double-Cross System or XX System was a World War II counter-espionage and deception operation of the British Security Service (MI5). Nazi agents in...
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operational techniques Counterintelligence Dangle Double Cross System Dual loyalty Espionage List of fictional double agents Mole Napoleonist Syndrome Policy of...
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up double-cross or doublecross in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Double Cross, Double Crossed, or their variants may refer to: Two-barred cross (‡)...
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Twenty Committee, which during the Second World War ran the Double-Cross System, controlling double agents in Britain. Masterman was born in Kingston upon...
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Wulf Schmidt (category Double-Cross System)
a double agent working for Britain against Nazi Germany during the Second World War under the codename Tate. He was part of the Double Cross System, under...
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Betrayal (redirect from Double cross (betrayal))
example, in World War II, British Military Intelligence used the Double Cross System to release captured Nazis and have them transmit to Germany false...
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well as the purchase of Norwegian securities and the use of the Double-Cross System to spread false rumours. Sweden maintained a neutral stance during...
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German agents in Britain. Many of them were recruited as double agents under the Double Cross System. For Fortitude, the intelligence agencies made particular...
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by Germany into the United Kingdom who became double agents acting for Britain in the Double Cross System—notably Juan Pujol García (Garbo)—played a vital...
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agents dispatched. During the Second World War, it developed the Double-Cross System. This involved attempting to 'turn' captured agents wherever possible...
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Clandestine human intelligence (section Double agent)
levels. A service may keep physical controls on its double agents, such as those in the Double-Cross System during WWII (few of whom were highly trained intelligence...
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Elvira Chaudoir (category Double-Cross System)
Despite objections by John Cecil Masterman, Chaudoir was added to the Double-Cross System team on 28 October 1942 with a new code name, "Bronx", after the...
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the Roman Empire XX (novel), a 2020 novel by Rian Hughes XX System or Double-Cross System, a British deception operation in the Second World War Les XX...
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Roman Czerniawski (category Double-Cross System)
Masterman, The Double-Cross System in the War of 1939–1945, Yale University Press, 1972.[ISBN missing] Macintyre, Ben (2013). Double Cross: The True Story...
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of specialists, and the Double Cross System. Double Cross referred to turning all surviving German spies in the UK into double agents, who sent back convincing...
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Walter Dicketts (category Double-Cross System)
information about any impending invasion of Britain. As part of the Double-Cross System Dicketts role was to convince the Germans he was a traitor who was...
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Roger Grosjean (category Double-Cross System)
wrote to Pierre from Lisbon. However, as all of this was part of the Double-Cross System, it is likely that Pierre knew in advance that this is what would...
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Mutt and Jeff (spies) (category Double-Cross System)
who worked for the United Kingdom and MI5 and were members of the Double Cross System. In April 1941 two Norwegians, John "Helge" Moe (Mutt) and Tor Glad...
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Duško Popov (category Double-Cross System)
he passed off disinformation to Germany as part of the British Double-Cross System while occasionally using cover as a diplomat for the Yugoslav government-in-exile...
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T. A. Robertson (category Double-Cross System)
intelligence officer responsible during the Second World War for the "Double-Cross" ("XX") disinformation campaign against the German intelligence services...
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Tomás Harris (section Possible double agent)
Spanish-speaker, he worked with Juan Pujol García, a very important double agent in the Double Cross System. Born of a Spanish mother, Enriqueta Rodriguez, and an...
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encountered, because the two-armed cross resembled existing local imagery. The coat of arms of Hungary depicts a double cross, which is often attributed to...
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Arthur Owens (category Double-Cross System)
in the 1958 science-fiction horror film The Fly. Double-Cross System Hayward, James (2013). Double Agent Snow. Simon & Schuster Ltd. ISBN 978-0857208545...
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Nathalie Sergueiew (category Double-Cross System)
was a double agent who worked for MI5 during World War II under the codename "Treasure". She played a significant role in the Double-Cross System, particularly...
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Johnny Jebsen (category Double-Cross System)
February 1950. List of people who disappeared Double-Cross System Tonkin, Boyd (6 April 2010). "Review of Double Cross: the True Story of D-Day Spies, by Ben...
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anti-aircraft guns, barrage balloons and fighter aircraft. The British Double-Cross System used double agents to plant false information about the accuracy of the...
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Juan Pujol García (category Double-Cross System)
(2012). Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies. London: A & C Black. ISBN 9781408821404. Masterman, J. (2013). The Double-Cross System: The Classic...
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Eddie Chapman (category Double-Cross System)
ISBN 978-2-84734-822-4. Masterman, John Cecil (2013) [1972, Yale University]. The Double-Cross System. London: Vintage, Random House. ISBN 9780099578239. Chapman, Betty;...
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Binary star (redirect from Double star system)
Galileo). The bright southern star Acrux, in the Southern Cross, was discovered to be double by Father Fontenay in 1685. Evidence that stars in pairs were...
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Frank Foley (category Double-Cross System)
Foley helped coordinate MI5 and MI6 in running a network of double agents, the Double Cross System. Foley returned to Berlin very soon after the war under...
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