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A spy in Churchill's family who pretended to be helping the French resistance.

Double-cross spies fed into the pre-d-day grand deception plan. Germans bought it even when it stretched believability.

Trying to predict when and where D-Day would occur.

Germans even tapped the trans-Atlantic cables and developed a device to descramble the messages. One such message between Roosevelt and Churchill led Hitler to occupy Italy after Mussolini was fired/abdicated.

Now the SD is getting involved.

Spying through neutral Sweden.

Spying in neutral Sweden, which leaned toward Germany, apparently had some good results.

Spanish spies working for Germany were all double-agents. Some had been turned by Kim Philby, famous Soviet double-agent working inside MI-5.

A few more successful German spies but their ranks were pretty thin after Pearl Harbor and the FBI round-up.

As much as the Germans are stereotyped as being super efficient, the German state at least through WW2 is such a confusing jumble. I kind of understand the Nazi Party's mirror-image apparatus as a state-within-a-state kind of thing, but even the government was duplicative. The Abwehr had its spies, as did the Sicherheitsdienst, and the Foreign Office and Gestapo were also spying, separately. Sometimes complimentary.

Turns out the FBI wasn't missing everything. In early 1941, they rolled up the major German spy rings. The debacle almost ruined the Abwehr but Canaris lied his way out of it.

Mixed results for German sabotage efforts in the US during WWII