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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).
Edward (or ‘Eddie’) Arnold Chapman was born in Berwick upon Tweed in England on 16 November 1914. He grew up during the Great Depression. He left school aged 14 in a bid to help the family financially.
Chapman was taken to a secret MI5 detention centre in west London known as Camp 020. He was interrogated by the formidable Lt Col Robin "Tin Eye" Stephens, who owed his nickname to the...
Dec 11, 2017 · MI5 took Chapman to Latchmere House, then known as Camp 020, in west London. They questioned him closely, and eventually accepted his offer to become a double agent.
The police safeguarded Chapman until the MI5, Britain’s rather small security service and domestic intelligence agency, took him to Camp 020, a secret detention center where Lieutenant Colonel Robin “Tin Eye” Stephens — the nickname a reference to the steel-rimmed monocle he wore at all times — debriefed him. Stephens was notorious ...
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Dec 3, 2003 · Chapman was known to MI5 by the code of Zig-Zag.He was sent back to Britain in 1944 to report on V1 rocket damage bringing vital intelligence for the Allies.
