Fritz Kolbe ("George Wood"), German Foreign Ministry; Allen Dulles, OSS Bern
In August 1943, German Foreign Office official Fritz Kolbe walked unannounced into the British legation in Bern and offered to hand over top secret Nazi communi...
23rd Headquarters Special Troops (Ghost Army)
The 23rd Headquarters Special Troops — known as the Ghost Army — was a unit of artists, actors, set designers, and sound engineers who used inflatable tanks, fa...
Virginia Hall, SOE "Marie" / OSS Operative
A Baltimore-born woman with a prosthetic leg she named "Cuthbert" organized the most effective SOE resistance networks in occupied France, evading the Gestapo f...
Rotmistrz Witold Pilecki, Polish Secret Army / Home Army
In September 1940, Polish cavalry officer Witold Pilecki deliberately got himself arrested by the Nazis to be transported to Auschwitz, where he spent nearly th...
Joachim Rønneberg and the six-man Gunnerside team, SOE/Kompani Linge
In February 1943, six Norwegian saboteurs trained by British SOE parachuted into the mountains of Telemark, skied for days in Arctic conditions to reach the Vem...
Glyndwr Michael ("Major William Martin"); Lt. Cmdr. Ewen Montagu, XX Committee
In 1943, British intelligence took the body of a Welsh vagrant who had died of pneumonia, dressed him as a Royal Marine officer named "Major William Martin," lo...