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The Double-Cross System’s Strength

What gave Britain’s Double-Cross system unusual power?

Captured or turned agents could be fed controlled information back to Germany under close supervision, creating channels the British understood better than the enemy did.

Why it matters: It was not just codebreaking but active management of what the enemy believed.

Britain · 1940-1944

Source trail: MI5 Double-Cross summaries