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The OSS also recruited and ran one of the war's most important spies, the German diplomat Fritz Kolbe.
At the OSS office in Bern, Switzerland, Allen Dulles had made working contact with Fritz Kolbe, " a disaffected member of the Nazi foreign office in Berlin ".
" Fritz Kolbe transmitted to the OSS some 1600 documents and cables, traveling between Berlin and Bern, " slipping through a half dozen Gestapo checkpoints while carrying his death-by-torture warrant in a shabby briefcase ", Helms wrote.
Already the OSS office had been discussing whether to attempt parachuting new agents into Germany ( in addition to in place agents, like Fritz Kolbe ).
Fritz Kolbe, a German diplomat and courier based in Berlin who had become an American spy after a meeting in Bern, Switzerland with the OSS, also provided information about ' Cicero '.
Fritz Kolbe ( September 25, 1900 – February 16, 1971 ) was a German diplomat who became America's most important spy against the Nazis in World War II.
Examples of spies with ideological motivations include Kim Philby and Klaus Fuchs ( communist ), Fritz Kolbe and Juan Pujol ( anti-Nazi ), Nathan Hale ( pro-American independence ), Harriet Tubman ( anti-slavery ), Ana Montes ( pro-Cuban )
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