Operation Cicero 2019 Cicero, pseudonym of Ilyas Bazna, born 1904, Pristina, one of the most famous spies of World War II, who worked for Nazi Germany in 1943 44 while he was employed as valet to Sir Hughe Montgomery Knatchbull Hugessen, British ambassador to neutral Turkey from 1939 He photographed secret documents from the embassy safe and turned the films over to the former German chancellor Franz von Papen, at that time German ambassador in Ankara For this service the Hitler government paid Cicero large sums in British money, most of it counterfeited in Germany Despite the evident authenticity of the films, the Nazi officials in Berlin mistrusted Cicero and are said to have disregarded his information Who was Cicero Was he a German spy or a spy working for the Turkish Intelligence MIT Was he after money or was he just a man seeking vengeance for the death of his parents