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Chapman’s superiors and teachers at Camp 020 were some of the most important members of the British Secret Service. Among them were Colonel Robin “Tin Eye” Stephens, the commander of the base; Lord Victor Rothschild, a scientist who helped Eddie with explosive techniques; and Captain Ronnie Reed, who was an expert in wireless radios.
He was interrogated at Latchmere House in southwest London, better known as Camp 020. MI5 decided to use him as a double agent against the Germans and assigned Ronnie Reed as his case officer (Reed, a former BBC engineer, had been invited to join MI5 in 1940 and remained there until his retirement in 1976).
Feb 9, 2021 · Far from being an Aryan super-saboteur, Chapman was an accomplished safecracker and professional crook from Northern England. Unbeknownst to all but the most secretive agencies in the country, he was also possibly the most daring and successful double agent in the world at the time.
Oct 18, 2023 · Edward Arnold (Eddie) Chapman (1914–1997) — AKA Agent ZigZag — Gangster, double agent. German Iron Cross holder. Photographed by MI5 after being parachuted back to England, 1942.
British military leaders interrogated him at Latchmere House, also called Camp 020, in west London. The skeptical camp commandant said Chapman considered himself “something of a prince of the underworld,” as quoted on the British Broadcasting Company's BBC News Web site.
Camp 020 at Latchmere House in south-west London was a British interrogation centre for captured German agents during the Second World War. [1] It was run by Lieutenant Colonel Robin "Tin Eye" Stephens.
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On 26 April 1942, after several visits from Germans, Chapman was released from Romainville to join the German secret service, the Abwehr, leaving Faramus behind. The Germans told Chapman that they were not interested in his colleague. Chapman was taken to Le Bourget in France and trained in spying. He was given the alias of ‘Fritz’.
