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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.
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 ...
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.
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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...
May 20, 2020 · 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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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.
