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Gösta Caroli (6 November 1902 – 8 May 1975) was a double agent working for
MI5 MI5 ( Military Intelligence, Section 5), officially the Security Service, is the United Kingdom's domestic counter-intelligence and security agency and is part of its intelligence machinery alongside the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6), Gov ...
during the
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under the codename SUMMER. Gösta Caroli and
Wulf Schmidt Wulf Dietrich Christian Schmidt, later known as Harry Williamson (7 December 1911 – 19 October 1992) was a Danish citizen who became a double agent working for Britain against Nazi Germany during the Second World War under the codename Tate. H ...
(a Danish citizen) landed, via parachute, in September 1940. The two were genuine Nazis, had trained together and were friends. Caroli was coerced into turning double in return for Schmidt's life being spared, whilst Schmidt was told that Caroli had sold him out, and in anger swapped sides. Caroli quickly became a problem; he attempted to strangle his MI5 handler before making an escape carrying a canoe, on a motorcycle. He vaguely planned to row to the Netherlands, but came unstuck after falling off the bike in front of a policeman. He was eventually recaptured and judged too much trouble to be used. Caroli spent the rest of the war in a British internment camp. Schmidt was more of a success. Codenamed 'Tate', he continued to contact Germany, until May 1945.


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* Tommy Jonason & Simon Olsson, ''Agent TATE: The Wartime Story of Harry Williamson''. London: Amberley Publishing, 2011. . 1902 births 1975 deaths Double agents Double-Cross System Abwehr personnel of World War II {{WWII-bio-stub Swedish collaborators with Nazi Germany Swedish people imprisoned abroad People interned in the Isle of Man during World War II World War II spies for the United Kingdom World War II spies for Germany