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responsible for the high standard of the scientific and technical side of
my service. It was the cooperation and interest which these people
showed to me personally which made most of my success in Secret
Service operations possible"—an unexampled acknowledgment of
indebtedness to communications intelligence by a cloak-and-dagger man.
The R.S.H.A. repaid some of this generous help with the products of
the greatest spy coup of World War II— Operation Cicero. "Cicero" was
Elyesa Bazna, an Albanian working in Ankara as the valet to Sir Hughe
Knatchbull-Hugessen, British ambassador to neutral Turkey. Bazna had
taken wax impressions of the keys to the black dispatch box which Sir
Hughe kept beside his bed for the secret papers that he liked to pore over
late at night. The valet would open the box, photograph the documents,
and sell the rolls of film to the R.H.S.A. agent in Turkey, L. C. Moyzisch
provided the Germans with information about Russian war production
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