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Author Schoonover, Thomas David, 1936-

Title Hitler's man in Havana : Heinz Lüning and Nazi espionage in Latin America / Thomas D. Schoonover
Published Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, ©2008

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Description 1 online resource (xxiv, 218 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents Front cover; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Acronyms/Glossary; Introduction; 1. A Troubled Life; 2. The World He Scarcely Knew; 3. Back to School! Trained as a Nazi Spy; 4. Tested in Action; 5. Failure and Fatality; Photo insert; 6. Their Man in Havana; 7. Graham Greene's Man in Havana; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Summary At the beginning of World War II, Heinz August Lüning, posing as a Jewish refugee, was sent to Cuba to spy for the Third Reich. Lüning's assignment was to collect information about the United States and its allies and report back to Abwehr, the German foreign intelligence agency. The Caribbean waters Lüning monitored were important to the Allies both for shipping and for deploying ships between the various fronts. Despite some early setbacks, Lüning provided information on naval activities to the Germans. Ultimately, however, Lüning was arrested and became the only Nazi spy executed in Latin A
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-207) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Lüning, Heinz, 1911-1942.
SUBJECT Lüning, Heinz, 1911-1942 fast
Subject World War, 1939-1945 -- Secret service -- Germany.
Espionage, German -- Cuba
Spies -- Germany -- Biography
Spies -- Cuba -- Biography
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
HISTORY -- Military -- World War II.
Espionage, German
Secret service
Spies
Cuba
Germany
Genre/Form Biographies
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
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