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By Robert Wilde, About.com Guide to European History since 2001

The most important spy of WW2

Saturday April 3, 2004
Fritz Kolbe was the most important spy of the Second World War (according to the CIA and they ought to know!), a German bureaucrat who passed vital documents to the Allies. Unfortunately, he was ostracised after the war – sometimes as a traitor – and he died abroad. Now a new book is trying to raise his reputation: read about it here.

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