Double Agent : The Eddie Chapman Story

[Lordbenny]

What a chap! Brilliant story, watching it now on I-Player, make sure you watch this, Boys Own stuff, the guy was a legend!

[Paul Dishman]

Well worth getting the book "Agent Zigzag" by Ben Macintyre who presented the programme

[threespires]

Enjoyed that

[RicksAlfas]

Paul Dishman said:

Well worth getting the book "Agent Zigzag" by Ben Macintyre who presented the programme

Agreed! One of those books which, if it was fiction, people would say was too unbelievable!

[anonymous-user]

I read the wiki entry about him after, it's a great follow up.

[Six Fiend]

Fantastic viewing and what a chap!

Now there's a guy I could have sat and listened to over a drink or several...

[Zod]

Paul Dishman said:

Well worth getting the book "Agent Zigzag" by Ben Macintyre who presented the programme

Great little read.

[anonymous-user]

Sir John Masterman 'Stand to attention'

E.Chapman - 'I'm not in your army, I am in the fking German Army.'

Very good story by a very colourful character, a true British cad.

[Balmoral Green]

The film 'Triple Cross' is often shown on TV, usually daytime telly afternoon slot. I can watch it time and time again.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061647/

[Mr_B]

I got the book The Double Cross System by J C Masterman, for £1 off ebay a few months back and while not a brilliantly written book, does give a good insight into the double agents run by the British.

The guy presenting this show also did another a few months back on BBC2 about Operation Mincemeat, better known to many from the film The Man Who Never Was. Both are great BBC productions.

[Trommel]

The book is very good, as is his more recent WWII one - Operation Mincemeat.

[Zod]

Trommel said:

The book is very good, as is his more recent WWII one - Operation Mincemeat.

That's the one about the tramp's corpse, isn't it?

[Trommel]

That's the one. Worth a read.

The body is in the cylinder underneath racing driver Jock Horsfall, who drove the van and cargo up to the submarine in Scotland:

Edited by Trommel on Wednesday 16th November 19:03

[ClaphamGT3]

Fascinating. The Mincemeat/Ewan Montagu story is very well known, but I'd never even heard of Eddie Chapman until I watched it.

A proper incorrigable rogue....... i bet he drove a Jaaaaag!

[Crafty_]

If you liked the Chapman program I can recommend "Operation Fortitude" by Joshua Levine: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Operation-Fortitude-Story-...

Chapman isn't mentioned but it covers the entire double cross system that the British ran during the war, the agents and how the entire system was organised.
It explains how Camp 020 was set up and some of the early agents and as the name suggests does spend a reasonable amount of time on the disinformation fed to the Germans regarding the D-Day landings.

I found it a decent read

[strudel]

I was channel hopping on Saturday and this popped up - what a cracking program. I think the energy the presenter had was great as well.

[bristolracer]

Love the bit where the BiB come to nick him so he says goodbye to his date and jumps thru the closed window

[RicksAlfas]

The 1966 film of Eddie Chapman is on Saturday, BBC2, 5.05pm, "Triple Cross".

[Six Fiend]

The book is a fabulous read. Never have I read something and regularly looked at the page thinking "He did what?!"