Nigel West

Double Cross in Cairo (eBook, ePUB)

The True Story of the Spy Who Turned the Tide of War in the Middle East

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

As part of the infamous Double Cross operation, Jewish double agent Renato Levi proved to be one of the Allies' most devastating weapons in World War Two. ln 1941, with the help of Ml6, Levi built an extensive spy-ring in North Africa and the Middle East. But, most remarkably, it was entirely fictitious. This network of imagined informants peddled dangerously false misinformation to Levi's unwitting German handlers. His efforts would distort any enemy estimates of Allied battle plans for the remainder of the war. His communications were infused with just enough truth to be palatable, and just enough imagination to make them irresistible. ln a vacuum of seemingly trustworthy sources, Levi's enemies not only believed in the CHEESE network, as it was codenamed, but they came to depend upon it. And, by the war's conclusion, he could boast of having helped the Allies thwart Rommel in North Africa, as well as diverting whole armies from the D-Day landing sites. He wielded great influence and, as a double agent, he was unrivalled. Until now, Levi's devilish deceptions and feats of derring-do have remained completely hidden. Using recently declassified fi les, Double Cross in Cairo uncovers the heroic exploits of one of the Second World War's most closely guarded secrets.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Biteback Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Januar 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781849548670
• Artikelnr.: 42333388

Autorenporträt

Nigel West is a military historian specialising in security and intelligence topics. He sits on the editorial board of the International Journal of Intelligence and Counter-Intelligence and Global War Studies and, for the past three years, he has chaired the panel of judges for the annual St Ermin's Intelligence Book of the Year award. He is also the recipient of the US Association of Former Intelligence Officers' first Lifetime Literature Achievement award.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Acknowledgements ix
Glossary xiii
Dramatis Personae xvii
Introduction xxiii
Chapter 1 Renato's Tale 1
Chapter 2 SIME 73
Chapter 3 Rommel's Intelligence 123
Chapter 4 The CHEESE Network 141
Chapter 5 Operation HATRY 173
Chapter 6 1943 191
Chapter 7 1944 205
Chapter 8 Plan JACOBITE 255
Chapter 9 MAX and MORITZ 267
Chapter 10 Finale 273
Appendix 1 Cipher devised for CHEESE 289
Appendix 2 Allied Order-of-Battle Inventions 293
Chronology 295
Bibliography 299
Index 303