London, Feb. 13 (ANI): British Secret Intelligence Service MI6 obtained vital secrets from a spy operating in the heart of Hitler's high command during crucial years of the war, according to new intelligence documents.
According to Cambridge historian Paul Winter, the secret agent, code-named "Knopf", furnished the MI6 with information on Hitler's plans in the Mediterranean and on the Eastern Front.
Past historians had played down the wartime role of MI6, but the discovery of Agent Knopf shows that Britain obtained accurate and highly valuable intelligence from a network of agents in the upper ranks of the Third Reich.
According to documents uncovered in the Churchill Archives in Cambridge, Knopf and his sub-agents alerted MI6 to German plans for an invasion of Malta in 1942, relayed Rommel's intentions in North Africa and revealed Hitler's fatal obsession with capturing Stalingrad on the Eastern Front.The F?hrer was "determined to capture Stalingrad at all costs," The Times reports quoted Agent Knopf, as reporting.
Hitler's disastrous assault on the Russian city, which led to the destruction of the German 6th Army, is seen as a turning point in the war.
Agent Knopf was initially recruited and run by Polish Intelligence, and in 1940, the Polish Government in exile in London agreed to hand over all its intelligence material to the Secret Intelligence Service [SIS], better known as MI6.
The archives of MI6 remain closed, and the real identity of Agent Knopf may never be known but the newly uncovered documents indicate that the star spy was a German with access to high-grade military information.
"The discovery of Agent Knopf and his fellow spies shows for the first time that Britain's SIS gained a unique entr?e into German operational and strategic thinking during the most critical phases of the war.
We may never know their true identities or respective fates, but their audacity and courage are beyond doubt," Dr Winter wrote in his thesis. (ANI)
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