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On 26 April 1942, after several visits from Germans, Chapman was released from Romainville to join the German secret service, the Abwehr, leaving Faramus behind. The Germans told Chapman that they were not interested in his colleague. Chapman was taken to Le Bourget in France and trained in spying. He was given the alias of ‘Fritz’.
- Anthony Faramus
The men were escorted by cargo boat and train to Paris and...
- Anthony Faramus
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.
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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...
- Morgan Dunn
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.
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 ...
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.
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The following images present a selection of documents from the case of Eddie Chapman, a British career criminal who became a highly successful British double agent during World War II. They are...
