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Agent zig zag5/12/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() He remained in prison even after the Germans invaded and occupied the Channel Islands in July 1940, and was finally released in October 1941.įrom German agent to double agent Eddie Chapman He was caught by the Jersey police in February 1939 after burgling a nightclub and was sentenced to two years' imprisonment, with an extra year being added on after an attempted escape in September 1939. His skill as a thief made him a good deal of money and allowed him to live the life of a wealthy playboy in Soho, mixing with the likes of Noel Coward, Ivor Novello and Marlene Dietrich.īy the start of 1939, however, he was being hunted by the police and fled to Jersey. He was a member of a "jelly gang", which specialised in robbing safes by blowing them open using the explosive gelignite. Eddie Chapman was a professional criminal in the years before the Second World War. ![]()
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