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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. (Image source:...
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. [1] [2] Although other wartime interrogation centres were alleged to have used torture to extract confessions, Stephens denied claims that ...
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Eddie Chapman (1914-1997), a British criminal turned spy, was a double agent who so fooled the German government during World War II that it awarded him an Iron Cross for service. While not considered the most important double agent during the war, he “was probably the most colorful,” Christopher Andrew wrote in London's Times Onlineof the safecrac...
Chapman was born on November 16, 1914, in Burnopfield, a mining village near Newcastle, England. He worked in shipyards as an adolescent and briefly joined the Coldstream Guards, a regiment of the British Army, but was released in 1933; frequently he was in trouble. Chapman was part of a “jelly gang,” a group that specialized in blowing up safes wi...
On December 16, 1942, Chapman, amid darkness of night, landed by parachute in Britain's Cambridgeshire countryside, near Ely. His assignment was to blow up the de Havilland aircraft factory at Hatfield, where the British made the effective Mosquito bomber. Chapman carried fraudulent identity, ––C990 ($2,000) in used currency, a radio set, and a sui...
After he returned to Germany, Chapman was dispatched to Norway to teach at a spy school in Oslo. After D–Day, the invasion of Normandy in June of 1944, the Abwehr sent him back to England to inspect damage from the V bombs. Chapman, who landed on concrete in his parachuting return and lost some teeth, continued to work as a double agent. His misinf...
Chapman published three books about his work: The Eddie Chapman Story (1953), Free Agent: The Further Adventures of Eddie Chapman (1955) and The Real Eddie Chapman Story (1966). Also in 1966, the film “Triple Cross” was released, with Tony Award winner Christopher Plummer playing Chapman. Meanwhile, the Germans joined the British in forgiving Chapm...
The release of the 2007 books revived interest in Chapman's work. After Macintyre published his book, old friends and enemies alike contacted the author. Journalist Peter Kinsley said, as quoted in the Times:“Eddie would have loved the publicity. His old friends said he should have worn a T–shirt emblazoned ‘I am a Spy for MI5.’ The last time I met...
“Ben McIntyre Shortlisted for Costa Book Awards 2007,” Times Online, http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/article2909485.ece(December 12, 2007). “The Day Agent Zigzag Came Back from the Dead,” Times Online, http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/history/article1937243.ece(November ...
Jan 8, 2016 · Lt. Col. Robin W.G. Stephens wrote a history of Camp 020 which is the most well-known version. But his assistant, George F. Sampson, wrote the first history.
Mar 29, 2020 · During World War Two captured enemy spies were taken to Camp 020, located south-west of London. The Camp was a secret interrogation centre run by MI5, the Security Service. Not many people realise that Camp 020 was located at Latchmere House, quietly nestled on the Richmond and Kingston borders.
depiction of the activities of Camp 020, an MI5 facility for captured German spies, included physical violence during an interrogation, which was subsequently fiercely contested by former members of staff from the establishment.
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Camp 020 was a MI5 interrogation centre for 500 captured German agents and British fascists. Only some of them were executed in the Tower of London or Wandsworth Prison. The villa was used as Ministry of Defence hospital for shell shocked officers.
