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Captain Sigismund Payne Best OBE (14 April 1885 – 21 September 1978) was a British Secret Intelligence Service agent during the First and Second World Wars. He was captured by German Gestapo and Sicherheitsdienst (SD) men on 9 November 1939 in the Venlo Incident .
Sigismund Payne Best, nació el 14 de abril de 1885 y murió el 21 de septiembre de 1978, miembro de la inteligencia británica durante la primera y segunda guerras mundiales.
The hapless British agents caught up in the Venlo Sting were Captain Sigismund Payne-Best (left) and Major Richard Henry-Stevens. The German party headed off, their car’s trunk (or boot) loaded with pistols.
In early September 1939, a meeting was arranged between Fischer and the British SIS agent Captain Sigismund Payne Best. Best was an experienced British Army intelligence officer who worked under the cover of a businessman residing in The Hague with his Dutch wife.
"Captain Sigismund Payne Best was a senior member of British Intelligence and was serving with Z Section of the SIS in the neutral Netherlands in November, 1939.Working with fellow agent, Richard Stevens, and a Dutch intelligence officer, they were abducted at a cafe in Venlo, close to the Dutch-German border. the Dutch officer was mortally ...
British officer served with Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) in GB, France, Belgium and Holland, 1914-1918 and in Holland, 1939; captured by the Germans following the Venlo Incident, 9/Nov/1939, and POW in Sachsenhausen and Dachau camps, Germany, 1939-1945.
The Venlo Incident. Von Sigismund Payne Best, Captain. At the outbreak of war our Intelligence Service had reliable information that Hitler was faced with the opposition of many men holding the highest appointments in his armed forces and civil service.
