Wrong Field, Wrong County: The Agent Who Never Reported
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Wrong Field, Wrong County: The Agent Who Never Reported
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A German agent parachuted into Ireland at 2:00 a.m. on 12 March 1941 and landed in the wrong county with a suitcase containing a radio transmitter, a microscope, counterfeit currency and unopened German cognac - and he immediately confessed to the local police. How did a trained Abwehr operative end up a hundred miles off-target in County Wexford and never send a single report?
In this episode, we follow the mission orders, the equipment and the chain of mistakes that shaped Günther Schütz’s wartime life. We outline his recruitment in Hamburg, his two years in Britain under commercial cover, the intended drop near Newbridge, and the consequences of landing near Taghmon - and ask how a navigational error unraveled an intelligence operation before it began.
Person: Günther Schütz
Date: 12 March 1941
Location: Taghmon, County Wexford
Organization: Abwehr (Hamburg economic section, Abwehr I)
Cover: Representative of Rémy and Company
- The suitcase hit the grass at roughly 2:00 a.m, on 12 March 1941.
- Garda officers found four items: a radio transmitter, a microscope, a bundle of counterfeit currency, and a bottle of German cognac.
- Schütz was 26 years old at the Christmas party in Hamburg in December 1938 when he was approached by Hauptmann Dr. Friedrich Karl Praetorius.
- The Abwehr provided £1,000 sterling and $3,200 (some counterfeit) plus a microdot system for the Ireland mission.
- Schütz landed about 100 miles from his planned drop zone of Newbridge in County Kildare, instead arriving near Taghmon in County Wexford.
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