Cicero (Elyesa Bazna), 1904-1970

Identifier
990002332130304146
Language of Description
English
Dates
1 Jan 1955 - 31 Dec 1961
Languages
  • English
  • German
Source
EHRI Partner

Note(s)

  • ports.

  • Envelope 4/72 ; microfilm reel 055 ; Frames 603 - 614

  • 10 newspaper clippings

  • Elyesa Bazna was a famous World War II secret agent. An Albanian from Kosovo who spied for the Germans during the Second World War, and was widely known by his code name Cicero. Principally motivated by a feeling of power, he sold information to the Germans through their attaché Ludwig Carl Moyzisch (and then through the ambassador Franz von Papen), in Ankara, Turkey in what became known as the Cicero affair. The information that he leaked is believed to have been potentially among the more damaging disclosures made by any single Second World War spy, but conflicts inside the highest echelons of the German government meant that little if any of it was actually acted upon -- (Wikipedia)

  • Johann Cilenšek was a German Komposer and a music pedagogue --(Wikipedia)

People

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