caption death_date death_place birth_place other_names image_size nationality name birth_date known_for image article_title birth_name
elyesa bazna -lrb- cicero -rrb- 21 december 1970 munich , germany pristina , kosovo vilayet -lrb- now kosovo -rrb- cicero 225px albanian elyesa bazna 28 july 1904 espionage for nazi-germany elyesa_bazna . jpg elyesa bazna
 elyesa bazna
elyesa bazna

elyesa bazna -lrb- albanian : iliaz bazda , born july 28 , 1904 in pristina , kosovo - december 21 , 1970 in munich , germany -rrb- was a famous world war ii secret agent .
he was an albanian from kosovo who spied for the germans during the second world war , and was widely known by his code name cicero .
principally motivated by a feeling of power , he sold information to the germans through their attaché ludwig carl moyzisch -lrb- and then through the ambassador franz von papen -rrb- , in ankara , turkey in what became known as the `` cicero affair '' .
the information that he leaked is believed to have been potentially among the more damaging disclosures made by a second world war spy but conflicts inside the highest echelons of the german government meant that little if any of it was acted upon .
