Our Man In Britain

[ciphergoth]

Thanks meowpurrr for the link, spotted this gem:

OSTRO was the only German agent not working under British control within in the UK, in fact OSTRO was not living in Britain at all and all his intelligence reports were fictitious, but he caused considerable concern to the Double Cross committee.

http://www.pro.gov.uk/releases/may2002-mi5/list.htm

Comments

[lovingboth]

This has been known for thirty-odd years, hasn't it?

My favourite in that file is shown in

http://www.pro.gov.uk/releases/may2002-mi5/p2.htm ...

ostro

[(Anonymous)]

My name is rita, i´m frim portugal and i´m researching for information on OSTRO, the German spy who was in Lisbon in WW II. I´m having a lot of difficulties on finding info about him - specially articles that have been written. Do you think uoy can help me?

my e-mail address is ritazf@clix.pt

Re: ostro

[ciphergoth.livejournal.com]

No, everything I know about it is contained in the above post. Sorry!