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Herman Görtz and Plan Kathleen

a German spy who was captured in Ireland during the Second World War.

In 1940, an Abwehr agent was parachuted into Ireland to persuade the IRA to assist a planned German military invasion of Northern Ireland via Lough Swilly, County Donegal. I’m not convinced Hitler’s team ever thought the plan was a runner. They basically sent a solitary man to Ireland to orchestrate the invasion.

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