Wulf Schmidt | Agent Tate's Five Year Secret War

Listen to this episode from True Life Spy Stories on Spotify. Ways to support the podcast:Buy Me a Coffee: ☕ https://bmc.link/philipthompsonDonate via PayPal: 💸 paypal.me/PhilipT284Five 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