Ottó Hátszeghy

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• New espionage-related details expand the subject's wartime role and connections (double agent activity, recruitment attempts, and meetings with German and English figures).
• These specifics alter the biographical portrayal by inserting intelligence/espionage activity into Hátszeghy's profile.

Add: At the same time Hátszeghy was working as a double agent being in contact with Otto Wagner the Abwehr German military intelligence chief in Sofia and told him about his meetings with the OSS Hátszeghy claimed to Wagner that Teddy Kollek the future mayor of Jerusalem had tried to recruit him to spy against Germany in October 1943 Accordingly to Wagner Hatz Hátszeghy met two Englishmen of whom he thought travelled constantly from Istanbul to Cairo His name sounded something like Kellock Kollek Both of these men tried in a rather clumsy confidential fashion to induce Hatz to engage in espionage against the Reich He refused bluntly On 14 December 1943 Hátszeghy met Adolf Heinz Beckerle the German minister plenipotentiary to Bulgaria.

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