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The Abwehr also predicted the Cretan population would welcome the Germans as liberators, due to their strong republican and anti-monarchist feelings, and would want to receive the "… favourable terms which had been arranged on the mainland …" While it is true the late republican prime minister of Greece, Eleftherios Venizelos, had been a Cretan, and support for his ideas was strong on the island, the Germans seriously underestimated the depth of patriotic feeling on the part of the Cretans.
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After the war Chapman remained friends with Baron Stefan von Grunen, his Abwehr handler ( also known as von Gröning, wartime alias Doctor Graumann ), who by then had fallen on hard times.
Though officially a citizen of Czechoslovakia, Schindler also became a spy for the Abwehr, then commanded by Admiral Wilhelm Canaris.
One source contends that he also continued to work for Canaris and the Abwehr, paving the way for the Wehrmacht's invasion of Poland on 1 September 1939.
After the July 20 Plot in 1944, the Ausland-SD also took over all functions of the Abwehr, or military intelligence.
He also received reports from Abwehr agents about many other incidents of mass murder throughout Poland.
He also used the term in the title of a 1995 article, " Transsexueller Wunsch und zissexuelle Abwehr " ( or: " Transsexual desire and cissexual defense ").
Menzies, who was promoted to major-general in January 1944, also supported efforts to contact anti-Nazi resistance, including Wilhelm Canaris, the anti-Nazi head of Abwehr, in Germany.
Hugo Bleicher, together with two of his French Abwehr agents Jean Rocquefort and Francois Barbier, was arrested in Amsterdam on 15 May 1945 by the Dutch NBS, who interrogated him for two weeks on his activities in the Netherlands before handing him over to the 1st Canadian Army, who interrogated him for a further period, also on his operations in the Netherlands, before handing him over to the British authorities, who transferred him on 16 June 1945 to the UK for longer term interrogation at Camp 020, where he co-operated willingly with his MI5 interrogators.
( See also: Irish Republican Army – Abwehr collaboration in World War II ).
The Abwehr also made attempts to foster intelligence gathering links with the IRA, but found that the IRA was in no condition to be of serious use — these attempts were to occur during the period 1939 – 1943.
It was also known that Herman Lang, a German spy working at the factory, leaked the design to the Abwehr in 1938.
He was also the first person to identify and interview the mistress of Admiral Canaris, the German intelligence chief who headed the Abwehr, and he was responsible for the exposure of Leo Long and Edward Scott as Soviet spies.
Many were operatives of Admiral Wilhelm Canaris ' war-time Abwehr organization, but Gehlen also recruited from the former Sicherheitsdienst, SS and Gestapo.
It was also during the 1930s that Stuart became friendly with German Intelligence ( Abwehr ) agent Helmut Clissmann and his Irish wife Elizabeth.
He also reactivated his acquaintance with Abwehr asset Helmut Clissmann who was acting as an advisor to SS Colonel Dr Edmund Vessenmayer.
He also was part of the Catholic resistance and was in contact to resistance figures in the Abwehr ( German military intelligence ) such as Admiral Canaris, Hans von Dohnanyi and Hans Oster.
Following this Russell was also involved in a meeting with German Intelligence ( Abwehr ) agent Oscar Pfaus.
Russell is also thought to have talked with the German Foreign Ministry and Abwehr about raising an " Irish Brigade " from Irish national POWs captured fighting for the British Army.
Evidence of German Intelligence's frustration can also be seen in the message from Abwehr II ’ s Director which was hand delivered to Seamus O ' Donovan on 9 February 1940 by Abwehr agent Ernst Weber-Drohl.
Shortly afterwards he also began working for the Abwehr, the intelligence department of the German Army.
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Robertson, in particular, believed that turning German spies against their masters would have numerous benefits ; for example what information the Abwehr wanted or to actively mislead them as part of a military deception.
Learning that the German officer escorting him around the camp was a member of the Abwehr, Archer follows him back to London, where he discovers Mayhew conspiring with top Abwehr officials to free the King, an act that would humiliate the SS as the organization in charge of guarding him.
The network would become so successful, even infiltrating the German military intelligence service Abwehr, that the Nazis set up the " Red Orchestra Special Detachment " ( Sonderkommando Rote Kapelle ) to try to destroy it.
In the run up to the war, Halder — in an attempt to avoid what they were certain would be a catastrophic war for Germany — was the main actor in a plot with several other generals in the Wehrmacht and Abwehr to remove Hitler from power.
The body would be floated ashore in Spain, where the nominally neutral government was known to cooperate with the Abwehr ( German intelligence ).
The Schwarze Kapelle were patriotic Germans, including many in the higher echelons of the Wehrmacht and Abwehr, who feared Hitler's policies would ruin the country ; by overthrowing the Nazi Party they hoped to preserve German sovereignty.
Together with the Abwehr chief, Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, and the Army Chief of Staff, General Ludwig Beck, Weizsäcker was a leader of the " anti-war " group in the German government, which was determined to avoid a war in 1938 that it felt Germany would lose.
Like other conservative resisters, Hoepner thought Hitler's strategic decisions would lead to the ruin of Germany, which was the motivation in the September 1938 plot, in which Hoepner was supposed to use his armored division to impose the surrendering of Hitler's personal guard, the SS Leibstandarte, and another in October – November 1939, after war had already begun-both involving the very top levels of the Abwehr and the High Command, the Oberkommando des Heeres, or OKH.
Stahmer would later replace Ott as ambassador when Richard Sorge, who had been working for Ott in Japan as an agent for the Abwehr, was unmasked as a spy for the Soviet Union in Japan in late 1941.
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A Polish investigation concluded in 2004 that Polish troops had been shot at by members of the German minority and German military intelligence ( Abwehr ) agents ; around 40 – 50 Poles and between 100 to 300 Germans were killed.
Chinciński discussed newly discovered documents of the Abwehr that show that there were indeed plans for fifth column and diversion activities in Bydgoszcz ; he discussed the bias of the Polish communist era historiography, which minimized cases of Polish mob lynching of ethnic Germans, which did occur in Bydgoszcz.
By mid-1939, thousands of Polish Volksdeutsche had been secretly prepared for sabotage and guerrilla warfare by the Breslau ( Wrocław ) office of the Abwehr ; the purpose of their activities was to provoke anti-German reprisals that could be claimed as provocations by the Germans.
The operation was named by Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, chief of the German Abwehr, for Francis Daniel Pastorius, the leader of the first organized settlement of Germans in America.
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Initially, the Japanese believed that, due to his Nazi party membership and German ties, Sorge was an Abwehr agent.
The IRA fostered links with German intelligence ( the Abwehr ) and Foreign Ministry, with men such as Francis Stuart travelling to Germany to talk, though these attempts were largely ineffectual due to a combination of Abwehr and Foreign Ministry incompetence and IRA weakness.
Lahousen was the first witness for the prosecution, his prominence due to being the sole survivor of the ' Abwehr resistance '.
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The German Abwehr entrusted Chapman to destroy the British de Haviland Company's main plant for the manufacture of heavy bombers, but required photographic proof from their agent to verify the mission ’ s completion.
To prepare his attack, Rommel relied on multiple intelligence sources: German Military Intelligence ( Abwehr ) had managed to crack British military codes, and could decipher the communications sent to U. S. military attachés describing their military situation.
However, the Abwehr denied that he was one of their agents.
In 1943, the Gestapo, Sicherheitsdienst, Geheime Feldpolizei and Abwehr set up their regional headquarters in the five student halls of residence on campus.
* The activities of German agents in Ireland throughout the war years and their attempts to contact and court both Irish Republican Army and disaffected Irish Army personnel — many of these agents, if not all, were captured / exposed ; see Irish Republican Army – Abwehr collaboration in World War II.
As the war turned against Nazi Germany in their eastern campaign, and as the Abwehr became less and less effective, around 1943 – 1944, operations in the island of Ireland ceased to be of interest to the German Government and military and therefore the British.
Gestapo and Abwehr officials protected Bandera followers, as both organizations intended to use them for their own purposes.
Through Admiral Canaris ' Abwehr they were in touch with their counterparts in Britain and other Allied and neutral nations.
Lescovar again betrays them, alerting a German sergeant to their presence, identifying himself as an Abwehr officer.
He was working for MI5 while appearing to the Abwehr ( the German intelligence agency ) to be one of their agents.
In March 1941, Owens and another double agent, Walter Dicketts ( known to MI5 as CELERY ), were summoned to Lisbon to meet their Abwehr controllers.
With the help of their Polish allies, British codebreakers at Bletchley Park had considerable success in decoding the Enigma-enciphered traffic of the German air force, army and intelligence and counter-espionage service ( Abwehr ), but had made little progress with German naval messages.
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