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Paul Rosbaud

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Paul Rosbaud - german scientific publisher for Springer, and secret agent for British Intelligence during WWII. Rosbaud had wide contacts within germany and provided MI6 with vital information regarding veapon systems. Rosbaud's code name was "Griffin". His reports were smuggled out of Germany by couriers working for the Norwegian intelligence organisation XU. Among the reports he supplied was that germany were producing rockets (V1 and V2) and that the german project for a nuclear bomb was not successful.