Название: WWII History Magazine 2010-01
Номер: 01
Год/Месяц: 2010/Январь
Автор: Коллектив авторов
Издательство: Sovereign Media
Страниц: 72
Качество: Хорошее
Язык: Английский
Формат: PDF в RAR
Размер: 34,7 Мб
IN ESPIONAGE FICTION, THERE ARE THREE TYPES OF SPIES. THE FIRST IS THE suave, dapper James Bond, 007, license to kill, a hit with the ladies. The second is the serious, intelligent, complicated spies created by John Le Carre. Then there is Maxwell Smart, an ordinary kind of guy, not too bright, friendly enough, but not someone to be trusted to save the world.
During World War II, German Intelligence, the Abwehr, run by Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, as shrewd a spymaster as there was, recruited a German of ordinary talent named Heinz Lüning as a spy and sent him to Havana, Cuba, as its agent in place. If Admiral Canaris had known what he was getting into when he sent the inexperienced Lüning to Cuba, he might have changed his mind. For Heinz Lüning, an imperfect spy if there ever was one, was not fit to be part of espionage, sometimes called the second oldest profession. He joined the Abwehr in order to get out of military service as well as to protect his family back in Germany. In the end, a tragic fate awaited Heinz Lüning—one that could have been avoided.