NAZI SECRET WEAPON
PARTICULARS DISCOVERED IN BRITAIN. DETAILS INADVERTENTLY LEFT BY SPY. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, September 29. The “Sunday Express” says it is possible to reveal that Captain Eberhard Spiller, who was the assistant German Air Attache in London before the outbreak of war, and who was killed in an air battle over Britain, unwittingly allowed details of one of Germany’s secret weapons to fall into British hands. When the war was imminent, Spiller, who was actually a spy, fled the country. The police searched his house in Hampstead, and found details of the secret weapon in a document which had fallen behind a chest. Spiller was among the members of the embassy’s staff who did not pay their debts before leaving Britain, and his victims included many West End tradesmen, hotels and restaurants. He also persuaded an attache of a neutral embassy to cash a valueless cheque on the day before his departure.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 September 1940, Page 5
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155NAZI SECRET WEAPON Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 September 1940, Page 5
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