商品簡介
This is the Second World War career of the longest serving double agent in the Double Cross system who operated from September 1940 to the end of war. He was dropped by parachute in England in September 1940, but was quickly caught after being betrayed by a fellow agent who had arrived some weeks earlier. He was taken to Camp 020 for interrogation by the team led by the famous Colonel ‘Tin-Eye’ Stephens, and eventually agreed to work as a double agent with the cover name Tate. He sent more than a thousand messages during the war for the Double Cross organization, whose aim was deception and supplying disinformation to the Nazi regime.
To finance his activities several schemes were used by the Germans, including a secret meeting with a Japanese on a number 16 London bus. After reporting about various areas of interest for the Germans he took part in the D-Day deception. Finally, after the war he settled in Watford with the name Harry Williamson and worked as a photographer. He was almost completely anonymous (although still protected by MI5), partly through fear of revenge, until his name was revealed in the 1990s.
While Ben Macintyre’s Agent Zigzag was a Number 1 bestseller, Agent Tate is even more interesting and had a much longer World War II spying career.
Amberley is also publisher of the critically acclaimed Spooks: The Unofficial History of MI5 (‘Definitive and comprehensive’ THES).
作者簡介
Tommy Jonason has written extensively on the Gestapo and the SS. He lives in Sweden. Simon Olsson is a consultant in Clinical Physiology. He lives in Sweden.
