Double Cross in Cairo

Nicossof ’s a Russian name

And not what you might think,

A form of Oriental vice,

Or buggery, or drink.

A scion of this noble house,

An unattractive sod,

Was Stanislas P. Nicossof

Of Nizhni Novgorod.

COLONEL DUDLEY CLARKE

They call me Venal Vera

I’m a lovely from Gezira

The Fuhrer pays me well for what I do

The order of battle

I obtain from last night’s rattle

On the golf course with the brigadier from GHQ.

ODE TO A GEZIRA LOVELY

Any trustworthy item of intelligence

is worth a dozen panzers.

ADMIRAL WILHELM CANARIS, FEBRUARY 1941

Chief among these masters of espionage was the

innocuously named agent
CHEESE
. This case

became one of the most successful of all the

double cross agents in the war.

TERRY CROWDY IN
DECEIVING HITLER