TheCodeBreakers
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
and army activities.
*No Pers z representative appears to have attended—probably a
reflection of the high-level personal dislikes and power struggles between
Goring and Himmler on the one hand and Ribbentrop and the military on
the other. At one point Goring tried to bring Pers Z within the ambit of
the Forschungsamt.
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