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Wonder if it is named after the ancient Roman Cicero or the modern spy novel titled I was Cicero? I had read the latter as a kid, so don't remember the plot muc
by fuzztester 3y ago
Wonder if it is named after the ancient Roman Cicero or the modern spy novel titled I was Cicero? I had read the latter as a kid, so don't remember the plot much, or how good the novel was.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cicero https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cicero
https://www.amazon.com/I-Was-Cicero-Elyesa-Bazna/dp/B0007DKEQK https://www.amazon.com/I-Was-Cicero-Elyesa-Bazna/dp/B0007DKE...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elyesa_Bazna https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elyesa_Bazna
Cicero, (born 1904, Pristina, Ottoman Empire [now in Kosovo]—died December 21, 1970, Munich, West Germany), one of the most famous spies of World War II, who worked for Nazi Germany in 1943–44 while he was employed as valet to Sir Hughe Montgomery Knatchbull-Hugessen, British ambassador to neutral Turkey from 1939. He photographed secret documents from the embassy safe and turned the films over to the former German chancellor Franz von Papen, at that time German ambassador in Ankara. For this service the Hitler government paid Cicero large sums in British money, most of it counterfeited in Germany. Despite the evident authenticity of the films, the Nazi officials in Berlin mistrusted Cicero and are said to have disregarded his information (some of which dealt with plans for the Allied invasion of Normandy on D-Day, June 6, 1944).
From:
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Cicero-German-spy https://www.britannica.com/biography/Cicero-German-spy