Agent Tate's Five Year Secret War | True Life Spy Stories

Go to http://piavpn.com/PhilipThompson to get 83% off from our sponsor Private Internet Access with 4 months free! Ways to support the channel: Buy Me a Coffee: ☕ https://bmc.link/philipthompson Donate via PayPal: 💸 paypal.me/PhilipT284 Listen to my spy stories on the True Life Spy Stories podcast! 🎙️https://creators.spotify.com/pod/show... Five days before Germany's unconditional surrender, a coded message was sent from the crumbling heart of the Third Reich. The transmission carried thanks for intelligence on Soviet mining operations and inquired about personal effects left in Hamburg years earlier. The German Abwehr were communicating with their Agent 3725, code-named Leonhard. To them, he was one of their most trusted operatives in Britain. But, they were unknowingly conversing with a double agent. What the Germans celebrated as their finest intelligence triumph had been, for almost the entirety of the war, a masterpiece of Allied counter-espionage. He was a man whose success helped save thousands of Allied lives, misdirected German military operations, and contributed to one of the most sophisticated deception campaigns in intelligence history. This is the story of Wulf Schmidt, or Agent Tate - a penniless Danish colonial worker who became one of Britain's most valuable intelligence assets and helped turn the tide of war. Further reading (affiliate links): 📕 Agent Tate: The Wartime Story of Harry Williamson - Tommy Jonason, Simon Olsson: https://amzn.to/4oJyTJl #philipthompson #truelifespystories #agenttate