Zig-Zag was the codename of Eddie Chapman, a criminal imprisoned in /Jersey? for safe-breaking in Glasgow. On the occupation of the [/Channel Islands]?, the Germans recruited him as an agent and despatched him to mainland Britain to commit acts of sabotage. He was turned and used to feed misinformation to the Germans. |
Zig-Zag was the codename of Eddie Chapman, a criminal imprisoned in /Jersey? for safe-breaking in Glasgow. On the occupation of the [/Channel Islands]?, the Germans recruited him as an agent and despatched him to mainland Britain to commit acts of sabotage. He was turned and was used to feed misinformation to the Germans. |
Chapman's story is related in the film [Triple Cross]? in which he is played by [Christopher Plummer]?.