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The valet to the British ambassador to Turkey in World War II was Ilyas Bazna, known by the code name Cicero. Bazna, an ethnic Albanian born 1904 in the Ottoman Empire, in a city now of Kosovo, served as valet to Ambassador Sir Hughe Knatchbull-Hugessen and worked as a spy for Nazi Germany, photographing secret documents from the embassy safe and selling them to the Germans.
"Moyzisch [his contact] published his memoirs, titled Operation Cicero, in 1950. Franz von Papen [Catholic monarchist] and Allen Dulles [a man who ought to have imprisoned as an American traitor] suggested that there was more to the story than was published in the book, but neither provided any details. Twelve years later, in 1962, I Was Cicero was published by Cicero himself." -Wikipedia Bazna, double agent, died 1970, Munich. The British ambassador was connected to Sir Isaac Wolfson in ways deserving of further research. https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/wolfson-sir-isaac Jewish money
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Josef Ketzer
10/5/2025 10:05:35 am
A fascinating story, like an Eric-Ambler-novel ...
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10/5/2025 10:15:20 pm
Dr. Ketzer, Austria, might be better read than I.
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