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Oct 18, 2023 · During interrogation at Camp 020 (MI5’s interrogation center in southwest London), the man displayed a complete willingness to collaborate, openly sharing every detail with his interrogators ...
- Eddie Chapman Was A Career Criminal When World War II Began
- The Truant Volunteers For The Nazis
- After He Surrenders to The British, Chapman Becomes A Double Agent
- Agent Zigzag Thoroughly Sabotages The Nazis
- Chapman Returns to A Life of Crime
Eddie Chapman was bornto a military family on Nov. 16, 1914, and tried his hand at the military himself when he turned 17. But after just nine months while posted at the Tower of London, he ran off with a woman to Soho. Naturally, the military caught up to him and imprisoned him. Once he was released — and dishonorably discharged — he returned to S...
While in Jersey’s decrepit jail, Chapman teamed up with Anthony Faramus, a hairdresser he’d met in prison and with whom he’d run a barbershop in the capital of St. Helier, and hatched a bizarre plan to escape jail. “If I could work a bluff with the Germans,” Chapman later wrote, “I could probably be sent over to Britain.” The two men wrote a letter...
Throughout 1942, the Nazis trained Chapman in explosives, wireless radio communications, and parachute jumping. He became fluent in French and proficient in German, and by the end of the year, he was von Gröning’s proudest achievement and the envy of every secret police chief and spymaster in occupied Europe. He was a spy par excellence. And von Gr...
From the start of his work with MI5, Chapman showed his new handlers that they’d struck proverbial gold. Not only was one of Germany’s finest agents in their hands, but he was eager to cooperate and subvert the Abwehr‘s efforts in Britain and abroad, beginning with fooling them into thinking the de Havilland factory was destroyed. British agents ma...
Eddie Chapman’s release from MI5 presented him with a perfect chance to return to his criminal career. Britain, at this point in history, was sadly a crook’s paradise, with endless opportunities for black marketeering, theft, forgery, and all sorts of shifty deals. And the criminal formerly known as Agent Zigzag had an unparalleled immunity: having...
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Jul 5, 2001 · British camp commandant about agent Zigzag. But these sleazy credentials helped make Chapman, codenamed Zigzag, an ideal wartime double agent, according to the Public Record Office files. He...
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.
Ben Macintyre reveals the gripping true story of Britain's most extraordinary wartime double agent, Eddie Chapman. A notorious safe-breaker before the war, Chapman duped the Germans so successfully that he was awarded their highest decoration, the Iron Cross.
Nov 15, 2011 · Eddie Chapman was a crook, a womaniser, an opportunist and a manipulator. But he was also an unlikely sort of World War II hero. He was motivated by a strange combination of self-interest,...
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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.
