![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Serbian playboy Dusko Popov was "an unstoppable womanizer" known as Tricycle. "Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies," Ben Macintyre's complex, absorbing final installment in his trilogy about World War II espionage, describes in entertaining detail how Allied Forces gained that advantage and used it to take the beaches at Normandy on June 6, 1944.Ībout two years before Robertson's epiphany, British intelligence concluded that "a live spy was more useful than a dead one," so they began forming "an intricate, self-reinforcing structure" of double agents and handlers who could cause the Germans "massive and perhaps critical damage." Overseen by the Twenty Committee, "so named because the number twenty in Roman numerals, XX, forms a double cross," the operation comprised a host of extraordinary characters, including five of the most peculiar agents in the war. "The only network of agents possessed by the Germans in this country," Robertson wrote in an official memo to his superiors, "is that which is now under the control of Security Service." In July 1942, Thomas Argyll "Tar" Robertson, the improbably jocular head of the MI5 section that oversaw Britain's double agents during World War II, known as section B1A, suddenly found himself sitting on a weapon that could propel the Allied forces toward certain victory: the entire German spy ring in Britain. ![]()
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