Agent Cicero
Subtitle: Hitler's most successful spy
By: Mark Simmons
Publisher: Spellmount, an imprint of The History Press; The History Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Stroud, Gloucestershire
Language: eng
Number of pages: 191
ISBN-13: 9780750952866
Subjects: Secret service; German Espionage; World War, 1939-1945; Spies
Description: This is the story of the most successful German spy of World War II, the Albanian Elyesa Bazna - an untrained opportunist. Bazna worked as a valet to the British ambassador to Turkey in Ankara. He photographed 'Top Secret' material, which he sold for vast sums to the Germans. He became the most highly paid spy in history. However he never got to enjoy his ill-gotten gains, for the British banknotes he demanded came from 'Operation Bernhard', the counterfeiting project set up by the SD, the Nazi foreign espionage department. Cicero even stumbled across 'Operation Overlord', code-name for D.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: First Contact, October 1943; title: Elyesa Bazna; title: Berlin Decides; title: Second Meeting; title: They Called Him Cicero; title: Who is Cicero?; title: Around Ankara; title: Andreas to Bernhard; title: December 1943; title: Churchill's Folly; title: The Turkish Labyrinth; title: A Transfer of Affections; title: To Catch a Spy; title: Defections; title: Cicero's Later Period; title: Another Spy; title: Two Spies Bow Out; title: The Fallout; title: The Longest Day; title: War's End; title: Trial and Revelation; title: Stellar Spy; title: Cicero in Fiction.