Radio game
Funkspiel is a secret service term for the replacement of a covertly operating enemy radio operator in one's own sphere of influence with one's own personnel or through recruitment as a double agent . The aim is to send the enemy recipient's own fake messages.
During the Second World War, radio games were repeatedly carried out by the Abwehr and the Department IVa of the Reich Security Main Office in the occupied Benelux countries and in France.
See also
literature
- Leopold Trepper : The truth. Autobiography; dtv: Munich 1978; ISBN 3-423-01387-7 .
- Hans Coppi junior : The “Red Orchestra” in the field of tension between resistance and intelligence work. The Trepper Report from June 1943 in quarterly journals for contemporary history 3/1996 (PDF)
- Hans Schafranek and Johannes Tuchel (eds.); War in the ether. Resistance and espionage in World War II. Picus Verlag, 2004; ISBN 3-85452-470-6 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ The communication scientist Paul Watzlawick cites German and English radio games during the Second World War as striking examples of the fact that “in the strange communication context of double agents, it is possible to simulate almost any 'reality' to the enemy”. Paul Watzlawick: How Real is Reality? Delusion - deception - understanding , Piper Verlag Munich 2003, ISBN 3-492-04515-4 .
- ↑ Wilhelm von Schramm describes specific examples from the Soviet Union occupied by the Wehrmacht : Secret Service in the Second World War. Organizations - Methods - Successes , Ullstein Verlag Frankfurt am Main 1986, ISBN 3-548-33075-4 , p. 233 ff.