• The Double-Cross System or XX System was a World War II counter-espionage and deception operation of the British Security Service (MI5). Nazi agents in...
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  • operational techniques Counterintelligence Dangle Double Cross System Dual loyalty Espionage List of fictional double agents Mole Napoleonist Syndrome Policy of...
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  • up double-cross or doublecross in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Double Cross, Double Crossed, or their variants may refer to: Two-barred cross (‡)...
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  • Twenty Committee, which during the Second World War ran the Double-Cross System, controlling double agents in Britain. Masterman was born in Kingston upon...
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    example, in World War II, British Military Intelligence used the Double Cross System to release captured Nazis and have them transmit to Germany false...
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  • the Roman Empire XX (novel), a 2020 novel by Rian Hughes XX System or Double-Cross System, a British deception operation in the Second World War Les XX...
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  • levels. A service may keep physical controls on its double agents, such as those in the Double-Cross System during WWII (few of whom were highly trained intelligence...
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  • Elvira Chaudoir (category Double-Cross System)
    Despite objections by John Cecil Masterman, Chaudoir was added to the Double-Cross System team on 28 October 1942 with a new code name, "Bronx", after the...
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    dispatched. During the Second World War, it developed the so-called 'double-cross' system. This involved attempting to 'turn' captured agents wherever possible...
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    by Germany into the United Kingdom who became double agents acting for Britain in the Double Cross System—notably Juan Pujol García (Garbo)—played a vital...
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    U+2021 ‡ DOUBLE DAGGER (‡, ‡). The cross of Lorraine was previously used in the Sabre, Apollo, and Worldspan global distribution systems (GDS)...
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    German agents in Britain. Many of them were recruited as double agents under the Double Cross System. For Fortitude, the intelligence agencies made particular...
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  • numeral XX (twenty), a visual pun on the phrase "double cross". American planners favoured either a cross-channel invasion into northern France in 1943,...
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    well as the purchase of Norwegian securities and the use of the Double-Cross System to spread false rumours. Sweden maintained a neutral stance during...
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    Johnny Jebsen (category Double-Cross System)
    List of people who disappeared Tonkin, Boyd (6 April 2010). "Review of Double Cross: the True Story of D-Day Spies, by Ben Macintyre". The Independent. Archived...
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  • Mutt and Jeff (spies) (category Double-Cross System)
    who worked for the United Kingdom and MI5 and were members of the Double Cross System. In April 1941 two Norwegians, John "Helge" Moe (Mutt) and Tor Glad...
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  • of specialists, and the Double Cross System. Double Cross referred to turning all surviving German spies in the UK into double agents, who sent back convincing...
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    Woolworth's department store in New Cross, south-east London. British intelligence sent false reports via their Double-Cross System implying that the rockets were...
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    Duško Popov (category Double-Cross System)
    He passed off disinformation to Germany as part of the British Double-Cross System while occasionally using cover as the Yugoslav government-in-exile in...
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  • Security Service controlled the German spy network in the UK with its Double-Cross System, though this fact was still secret at the time the film was made...
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  • Doublespeak (redirect from Double speak)
    Cognitive dissonance Corporate lingo Dog-whistle politics Double bind Double entendre Double-talk Doublespeak Award Euphemism Obfuscation Obscurantism...
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    Juan Pujol García (category Double-Cross System)
    (2012). Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies. London: A & C Black. ISBN 9781408821404. Masterman, J. (2013). The Double-Cross System: The Classic...
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    Roman Czerniawski (category Double-Cross System)
    Masterman, The Double-Cross System in the War of 1939–1945, Yale University Press, 1972.[ISBN missing] Macintyre, Ben (2013). Double Cross: The True Story...
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  • Arthur Owens (category Double-Cross System)
    in the 1958 science-fiction horror film The Fly. Double-Cross System Hayward, James (2013). Double Agent Snow. Simon & Schuster Ltd. ISBN 978-0857208545...
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    Eddie Chapman (category Double-Cross System)
    ISBN 978-2-84734-822-4. Masterman, John Cecil (2013) [1972, Yale University]. The Double-Cross System. London: Vintage, Random House. ISBN 9780099578239. Chapman, Betty;...
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    Galileo). The bright southern star Acrux, in the Southern Cross, was discovered to be double by Father Fontenay in 1685. Evidence that stars in pairs were...
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  • Deception (redirect from Double Bluff)
    PMID 14049516. S2CID 18309531. "double bluff". cambridge.org. Cambridge University Press. Retrieved May 5, 2024. "Definition of 'double bluff'". collinsdictionary...
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  • T. A. Robertson (category Double-Cross System)
    intelligence officer responsible during the Second World War for the "Double-Cross" ("XX") disinformation campaign against the German intelligence services...
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    Roger Grosjean (category Double-Cross System)
    wrote to Pierre from Lisbon. However, as all of this was part of the Double-Cross System, it is likely that Pierre knew in advance that this is what would...
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  • Wulf Schmidt (category Double-Cross System)
    a double agent working for Britain against Nazi Germany during the Second World War under the codename Tate. He was part of the Double Cross System, under...
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