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More than once he apparently had a character reference from M15 who confirmed his contribution to the war effort. Chapman married Betty Farmer, his old pre-war girlfriend, with whom he eventually had a daughter, Suzanne, in 1954.
- Anthony Faramus
While Chapman left Romainville on 10 April 1942,...
- Anthony Faramus
Jul 4, 2018 · Chapman, Bad Sam – Formerly the Head Dog who had a large amount of money go missing on his watch. Ends up working for an agency that tracks down runaways. He first appears in Reconstruction trying to salvage a screw up before being bounced from the Service.
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:...
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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 ...
Wright's case against Hollis was re-stated by Chapman Pincher [12] in his book, Treachery: Betrayals, Blunders, and Cover-ups: Six Decades of Espionage Against America and Great Britain (2009). [13]
The first, led by Peter Wright, the former M15 officer in exile in Australia, holds that 'Elli' was the late Sir Roger Hollis, director general of M15 from 1956 to 1965, and that Hollis was a Soviet penetration agent of status equal to, if not higher than, Philby.
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Primary source material for the study of the Great War including diaries, personal narratives, trench journals, photographs, posters, cartoons, aerial leaflets, government and military files, and ephemera.
