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Erich PFEIFFER: a senior Abwehr officer [Naval Intelligence], whose career spanned...
Catalogue reference: KV 2/267
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This record is about the Erich PFEIFFER: a senior Abwehr officer [Naval Intelligence], whose career spanned... dating from 1938 Jul 18-1946 Jun 27 in the series The Security Service: Personal (PF Series) Files. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- KV 2/267
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1938 Jul 18-1946 Jun 27
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Description (What the record is about)
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Erich PFEIFFER: a senior Abwehr officer [Naval Intelligence], whose career spanned the 1930s & 1940s. Before The Second World War he was in charge of a number of successful espionage operations against France including an important case in the French Navy involving Marc AUBERT, who supplied Germany with vital naval intelligence, and against the USA, where a network of agents provided information on naval and air construction and even hatched a plan to kidnap an American officer with access to important documents; this operation ended in 1938 with the arrest of most of the agents in a blaze of publicity. PFEIFFER also controlled a number of 'visiting' agents to Britain who reported on naval targets and British industry. During The Second World War PFEIFFER commanded a Maritime Kommando unit for the Abwehr which gathered and disseminated intelligence gained from abandoned Allied naval equipment and documents. Later PHEIFFER was based in Bremen and Istanbul.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- With 3 photographs, 1 very detailed Camp 020 interrogation report and PFEIFFER'S ISOS intercepts.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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- PF 46969
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- Open Document, Open Description
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