Talk:Hughe Knatchbull-Hugessen

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Surely he couldn't have been appointed ambassador to Germany in 1944 --wwilly 07:16, 23 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Cicero: WW2 spy

From: Matthew Parris, Andrew Bryson - The Spanish Ambassador's Suitcase, Stories from the Diplomatic Bag, p.144-145 / 610: "A few years after Knatchbull-Hugessen wrote his creed, his career reached its peak (in so far as it was all downhill thereafter) when he was ambassador in wartime Istanbul. While the diplomat was taking a bath, his valet stole a set of keys to his safe, and wasted no time in selling the contents to the Nazis. Impressed by this sudden windfall of intelligence, the Germans gave him the code name Cicero. Over the next two years, as the unwitting Knatchbull-Hugessen dutifully refreshed the contents of the safe, Cicero copied and passed on to the Nazis everything from precise details of Allied bombing raids to an outline of the D-Day landings." ← ZScarpia 11:40, 26 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Parris might not be entirely right there: the article on Elyesa Bazna says he didn't pass on details of the D-Day landings and Bazna's cover was effectively blown by February 1944. Thomas Peardew (talk) 09:54, 18 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Oxford

He couldn't have possibly known Anthony Eden at Oxford, because he graduated in 1907 whereas Eden graduated in 1922. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pureriviera (talk • contribs) 07:08, 24 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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