10 WWII Double-Crosses That Backfired on the Traitor

10 WWII Double-Crosses That Backfired on the Traitor In December 1942, a British safecracker with a criminal record longer than most military service files parachuted into Cambridgeshire on behalf of Nazi Germany. His name was Eddie Chapman. Within hours of landing, he walked into a police station and offered to work for British intelligence instead. MI5 gave him the codename ZIGZAG. The Abwehr, who had trained and trusted him, called him FRITZ. He was, from that moment forward, working for whoever was in the room with him.