Karl Krüger (born 1874,[1] believed killed 1939 or later) was a former German naval engineer who provided intelligence about German ships to the British during World War I[2] and World War II. His identification code was TR/016.[3] Krüger was a particularly valuable source on German losses from the Battle of Jutland,[2] and on the development of U-boats.[3] In approximately 1939, he was betrayed by a German agent within MI6; he failed to show for a meeting in August of that year, and it is presumed he was executed by the Nazis.[4] His British contacts initially believed he was a Dutchman.[1] He was connected to the British through the embassy at The Hague; he may have been identified to the Germans by an embassy employee named Folkert van Koutrik, who "was on the Abwehr's payroll."[5]
References
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- ^ a b "SIS – Our History". www.sis.gov.uk. Archived from the original on 2017-10-18. Retrieved 2023-04-24.
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- ^ Hastings, Max (2015). The secret war : spies, codes and guerillas 1939-45. William Collins Books. pp. 10–11. ISBN 978-0-00-813302-3. OCLC 921409232.
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