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    Double-Cross System - Wikipedia

    The Double-Cross System or XX System was a World War II counter-espionage and deception operation of the British Security Service (MI5). Nazi agents in Britain โ€“ real and false โ€“ were captured, turned themselves in or simply announced themselves, and were then used by the British to broadcast mainly โ€ฆ See more

    Following a July 1940 conference in Kiel, the Abwehr (German intelligence) began an espionage campaign against Britain involving intelligence โ€ฆ See more

    The main form of communication that agents used with their handlers was secret writing. Letters were intercepted by the postal censorship โ€ฆ See more

    The British put their double-agent network to work in support of Operation Fortitude, a plan to deceive the Germans about the location of the See more

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    July 1940
    The Abwehr begins an espionage campaign against Britain involving intelligence gathering and sabotage.
    September-November 1940
    MI5 captures or turns almost all of the German spies sent to Britain.
    September 1940
    Gösta Caroli and Wulf Schmidt (Tate) land in Britain by parachute and are turned into double agents.
    Early 1941
    Walter Dicketts (Celery) is sent to Lisbon to meet Arthur Owens' (Snow) German spymaster, Nikolaus Ritter.
    1942 onwards
    MI5 stops receiving new German agents and relies on existing double agents and fictitious sub-agents.
    1943-1944
    The double-cross system supports Operation Fortitude, a plan to deceive the Germans about the location of the Normandy Landings.
    June 1944 onwards
    The double-cross system helps to mislead the Germans about the impact and damage of the V-weapons attacks on Britain.

    It was not only in the United Kingdom that the system was operated. A number of agents connected with the system were run in neutral Spain โ€ฆ See more

    The British noticed that, during the V-1 flying bomb attacks of 1944, the weapons were falling 2โ€“3 mi (3โ€“5 km) short of Trafalgar Square, โ€ฆ See more

    โ€ข Crowdy, Terry (20 December 2011). Deceiving Hitler: Double-Cross and Deception in World War II. Osprey Publishing See more

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