Katz me if your can
With the aftermath of this bemusing piece of current affairs providing a timely window of opportunity, a new book by Jonathan Miles charts the rise and fall of the most slippery fish in espionage before and during World War II.
Otto Katz — let’s leave aside the 21 known aliases he is said to have employed — is an instantly intriguing figure. His apparent ability to place himself at the right place at the right point in history led to him becoming one of Soviet Russia’s most effective disseminators of propaganda and misinformation.
