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...this book, written by two reputable French journalists after 21 years of assiduous research, claims that all of those revelations were indeed made-and disregarded. The man who ferreted out that information and relayed it to the Allies was a studious, skeletal German refugee-journalist-publisher named Rudolf Roessler, code-named "Lucy," who according to the authors was the most influential-and ignored-spy of World...
Fraternity Hatred. Roessler, a rightist-imperialist German intellectual who fought in World War I and afterward maintained his dedication to a reasonable Germany, fled to Switzerland in 1934, but not before cementing an anti-Nazi friendship with ten high-ranking comrades in the Wehrmacht. Sharing with them the military fraternity's hatred of Korporal Adolf Hitler, Roessler agreed to serve as an out-of-country transmitter for every bit of intelligence that the ten could sneak out of Germany in the event of war. At the same time, he promised his friends that he would not disclose their identities...
According to Authors Accoce and Quet, Roessler first tried to feed his inside dope to Britain, France and the U.S., but was not believed because he would not admit to his source. Then began a liaison with Moscow's MGB-known to him as "the Center." Stalin at first ignored Roessler's pipeline poop on "Barbarossa." But when the Germans invaded as advertised, the Center quickly began paying Roessler $1,600 a month for everything he could transmit...
Messages to Moscow. It was Roessler's inside information, according to the authors, that allowed Soviet Marshals Zhukov, Rokossovski and Eremenko to draw the Wehrmacht into the encirclement of Stalingrad and thus turn the tide of the war in the East. Roessler also provided Russian propagandists with information-direct from Hitler's headquarters-that was used over loudspeakers to break the German resistance: "Panzer grenadiers of the 24th, we shall not be south of Voronezh the day after tomorrow as your leaders have assured you. Save your bread, your ammunition and your gasoline. The luckiest will be those...
After the war, the Swiss themselves took revenge for the embarrassment Roessler had caused them: when he was accused of spying on NATO for the Russians, the Swiss government locked Roessler up for one year. Virtually penniless, he died in 1958; his death went unremarked by the Allies he had tried to serve. Yet the facts of his ring's existence and its ways of operating, as reported by Authors Accoce and Quet, are grudgingly accepted as true by Swiss, West German and British intelligence personnel. Even Allen Dulles, who operated for the OSS in Switzerland during...