![]() ![]() In Britain, he was pardoned for his crimes, becoming the only wartime agent to be thus rewarded. The Nazis feted Chapman as a hero and awarded him the Iron Cross. For the next four years, Chapman worked as a double agent, a lone British spy at the heart of the German Secret Service.Ĭrisscrossing Europe under different names, all the while weaving plans, spreading disinformation, and, miraculously, keeping his stories straight under intense interrogation, he even managed to gain some profit and seduce beautiful women along the way. ![]() Instead, he contacted MI5, the British Secret Service. In 1941, after training as a German spy in occupied France, Chapman was orders orders from the Abwehr to blow up an airplane factory in Britain. The problem for Chapman, his spymasters, and his lovers was to know where one persona ended and the other began. Inside the traitor was a man of loyalty inside the villain was a hero. He was also one of the most remarkable double agents Britain has ever produced. Eddie Chapman was a charming criminal, a con man, and a philanderer. ![]()
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