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Died. Sir John Masterman, 86, former vice chancellor of Oxford University who directed British-and later Allied-counterintelligence units during World War II; in Oxford. In his book The Double-Cross System in the War of 1939 to 1945, Masterman recounted how the Twenty Committee (from the Roman numeral XX, symbolizing double-cross) effectively "ran and controlled the German espionage system" by feeding agents carefully planned false information, e.g., that the 1944 Allied invasion would take place in Calais, not Normandy. After the war, Masterman returned to Oxford and until his retirement in 1961 served as provost of Worcester College...
...WAYNE MASTERMAN...
...predicting-you read it here!-that Russia will prove too much for Hitler. So it's "Once more into the attics, fellow soldiers." Even old memos are worth their weight in gold, and that, given the art of military memo writing, is saying something. In 1945 Sir John Masterman, peacetime Oxford don, wartime counterspy, was ordered to write an official report about the remarkable success British intelligence enjoyed turning around German spies in England and deploying them as double agents. Yale University Press has simply reprinted this surprisingly readable document (The Double-Cross System...
...Double-Cross System in the War of 1939 to 1945, Masterman...