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Walter Simon was a World War II spy captured in neutral Ireland during World War II. ==Background== With the Battle of Britain about to begin following the fall of France, the arrival of a German spy on the Dingle Peninsula — in June 1940 — sparked enormous security concerns both in Ireland and the United Kingdom. Walter Simon was trained at the Abwehr branch in Hamburg, who were responsible for subversive activities against the United Kingdom. Walters was known to British security officiers, having completed three successful espionage missions in England. He as was arrested by MI5 in 1939, and sepend a threemonths in Wandsworth Prison, after been found guilty of illegal entry. He was subsequently deported back to Germany and warned never to return. While identified as a spy, the British authorities couldn't prove it, and was therefore saved harsher punishment. Trained by Nilolaus Ritter, an Abwehr agent in Britain under the name "Dr. Rantzau", he refused to crack under close interrogation. MI5 returned all his notebooks containing coded information that he had amassed. He had collected on British air defenses — material invaluable to Operation Sealion, the planned invasion of Britain. The Abwehr decided to send him to Ireland to collect intelligence on the disposition of British naval ships. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Walter Simon (spy)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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