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Eddie Chapman

Eddie Chapman

1914–1997

Nationality
United Kingdom
Occupation
spy

Edward Arnold Chapman (16 November 1914 – 11 December 1997) was an English criminal and wartime spy.

Incarceration history

Facilities

  1. Fort de Romainville
    Dates unknown

Biography

Edward Arnold Chapman (16 November 1914 – 11 December 1997) was an English criminal and wartime spy. During the Second World War he offered his services to Nazi Germany as a spy and subsequently became a British double agent. His British Secret Service handlers codenamed him Agent Zigzag in acknowledgement of his erratic personal history. He had a number of criminal aliases known by the British police, amongst them Edward Edwards, Arnold Thompson and Edward Simpson. His German codename was Fritz or, later, after endearing himself to his German contacts, its diminutive form of Fritzchen.

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