MASTER SPIES CICERO. The code name for the spy Elyese Bazna, a valet employed in the British Embassy in Ankara, Turkey. While working there he used a duplicate key to open the Ambassador's black dispatch box and photographed all the documents he found there to pass on to the Germans. These included plans for the D-day invasion. In all, he was paid 300,000 British pounds for all the information he delivered. Later, when he tried to use this money to build a hotel, he discovered the notes to be counterfeit. He later wrote his memoirs which earned him quite a large sum but he died in poverty. RICHARD SORGE. A German national born in Baku, Russia and educated in Berlin where he became a communist spy and a Nazi party member. He posed as the German Foreign Correspondent of the newspaper Frankfurter Zeitung and established contact with the German Embassy in Tokyo from where he obtained details of Nazi intentions against the Soviet Union. These he passed on to the Soviet KGB. Arrested later by the Japanese police, he was reported executed in Tokyo on November 7, 1944 in Sugamo Prison. In 1964, Sorge was posthumously awarded the title 'Hero of the Soviet Union' and is buried in the Reien Cemetery in Fuchu City, Tokyo. REINHARD GEHLEN. German Army general and commander of an intelligence unit which in 1945 surrendered to the US Forces, complete with men and intelligence files on the Soviet Union. He then worked for the Americans on espionage operations against the Soviets. Known as the 'Gehlen Organization' it had its headquarters at Pullach near Munich. Through this organization the Allies were able to hunt down many upper echelon Nazis in hiding. Gehlen retired in 1968 and his memoirs 'Der Dienst' (The Service) was published in 1971. His spy network was then renamed the 'German Federal Intelligence Service'. LEOPOLD TREPPER. Of polish nationality, Trepper was the leader of the Red Orchestra spy network, a Soviet organization operating in Belgium and France. It was the KGBs principle source of information from occupied Europe. After his arrest in Paris by the Gestapo, his own family, 48 members in all, were exterminated. Trepper survived the war and served ten years in a Soviet prison. On his return to Warsaw he started life again as a publisher of Jewish and classical literature. In 1974 he went to live in Jerusalem and there, in 1983, died at the age of 77. ALEXANDER RADO. A Hungarian and also a Colonel of the Red Army. He set up a spy network in Switzerland known as 'The Lucy Ring', the most successful spy organization in World War 11 supplying the Soviets with advance information of German intentions in the east. In January, 1945, Rado was ordered to report to Moscow. Knowing that he had embezzled something like 50,000 dollars, which was sent to him to run his network, he disappeared when the plane taking him to Moscow made a stop in Cairo. Eventually the KGB caught up with him and he spent the next twelve years in a Siberian work camp. On his release, he took a job as Professor of Geography at the University of Budapest in 1966.
