Secret plot to catch out Nazi spy

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BBC


Details of a failed plot to trap a Nazi spy without the knowledge of Britain's war leaders have been released.

Civil servants suspected the identity of the agent, codenamed Cicero, and feared he would wreck plans for D-Day.

The spy was a valet to a British ambassador in Turkey and sold copies of his employer's secret papers.

National Archive documents say a fake Cabinet Office paper was planted at the embassy in the hope Cicero would photograph it and give himself away.

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