Silver: The Spy Who Fooled the Nazis

Name: Silver: The Spy Who Fooled the Nazis
Brand: Fonthill Media

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DescriptionSilver was the codename for the only quintuple spy of the Second World War, spying for the Italians, Germans, Japanese, Soviets and the British.\nThe Germans awarded him the Iron Cross, Germany s highest military decoration, and paid him 2.5 million in today s money.\nIn reality Silver deceived the Nazis on behalf of the Soviets and the British.\nIn 1942 the Russians decided to share Silver with the British, the only time during the war that the Soviets agreed to such an arrangement.\nThis brought him under the control of Peter Fleming who acted as his spy master.\nGermans also gave Silver a transmitter which broadcast misleading military information directly to Abwehr headquarters in Berlin.\nSilver was one of many codenames for a man whose real name was Bhagat Ram Talwar, a Hindu Pathan from the North West Frontier province of then British India.\nBetween 1941 and 1945 Silver made twelve trips from Peshawar to Kabul to supply false information to the Germans, always maki8