April 2nd, 2004, 01:25 PM
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Top German WW2 Spy Gets Posthumous Rehabilitation
A German bureaucrat the CIA once called "the most important spy of the Second World War" but was scorned at home as a traitor may soon get belated honors from the government -- three decades after he died as an outcast.
Fritz Kolbe, a Foreign Ministry official who passed on more than 1,600 top secret Nazi documents to U.S. handlers in Switzerland between 1942 and 1945, was hailed for his deeds in Washington after the war but ostracized and forgotten at home.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...germany_spy_dc
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