While there were certainly countless intelligence successes in World War II, the British Double Cross network, referred to as “XX” or the “Twenty Committee” based on the roman numerals, was one of the most interesting systems established during the war. By war’s end, they had exposed and taken control of the entire German intelligence network, the Abwehr, in Britain (West, N). Through the ULTRA program, the British were able to intercept German wireless traffic and use it to track German agent activity in the country and capture spies relatively quickly. Instead of killing handfuls of German agents and potentially revealing they had broken the German Enigma code, they decided to, in turn, use them as double agents. The spies were then used to feed disinformation to their Nazi controllers while also adding in some true information that would convince the Nazis that they had not been captured and turned. It was …show more content…
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