least confusing spy biography

German intelligence in WW2 is a hilarious mess, it was just double agents plotting against each other all the way, all the double agents working for the Germans were actually triple agents and the head of military intelligence was eventually executed for plotting against Hitler. Absolute schizo paradise.

Oh and one absolute chad just made up an entire spy ring and just pocketed the money the Germans gave him to pay the dozens of imaginary informers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shi_Pei_Pu

AHEM

In the summer of 1940 (according to Höhne) "Werner Schulz" recruited Lissner for the Abwehr after they promised to release his father from prison and let him move with his wife to Shanghai where his brother Percy was working for AEG. They also promised to restore his reputation in Tokyo.

This description by Höhne is wrong. An article published on the Lissner website concludes that "Hauptmann Werner Schulz" who, referring to Heinz Höhne, should have been responsible for Lissner's recruitment into the Abwehr, was most likely a "fictitious construction of Heinz Höhne".[12] It seems that Höhne used "Werner Schulz" to impute Lissner with a pro-Nazi attitude. According to the article Lissner was active in the German resistance movement. His agent controller, Captain Friedrich Busch, was a sincere anti-Nazi who saved several social democrats from concentration camp and who often shut his eyes to the fact that agents working for him were also working for the Allied intelligence services. In fact the sources mentioned in the article show that "Hauptmann Schulz"'s biography is a combination of the biographies of two other Abwehr members, Dr. Julius Berthold Schultze and Gideon Richard Werner Schüler. Indeed Lissner was recruited much earlier (in 1938) after the first arrest of his father. Lissner then travelled to East Asia with the cover of a newspaper correspondent. Actually he never was a member of the "Reichspressekammer" (Reich Press Chamber). According to the article this fact was concealed by Höhne through the deletion of all relevant passages and contrary assurances of Ivar Lissner in his memoirs, and Höhne's own inadequate research. In addition Höhne misquoted a letter of Lissner to the British historian Deakin in his epilogue to the Lissner memoirs. He used this wrong quotation as a "proof" that Lissner had denied any connection with the "VB". Actually Lissner only denied having been a member of the "Reichspressekammer", the prerequisite for working as a newspaper correspondent, and confirmed that he had pretended to work "for those gangsters" during a period lasting 33 days.

Is this from a chatbot? I like how it starts out saying "this description" is wrong, but there's no description. Basic ESL mistake.

And it rambles! "Actually blah blah blah." New point outta left field. And there's barely any sources if any.

>This was in fact untrue. Actually the decision concerned only Lissner himself but not his family in Shanghai.

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It's an honor having my identity stolen by none other than the grand capy