Josef Jakobs SW3, on 4–5 August 1941. The trial was held "in camera" because the German agent had been apprehended in a highly classified intelligence operation known as the Double Cross System. The British were aware that Jakobs was coming because his arrival information had been passed on to MI5 by the Welsh nationalist and "Abwehr" double agent Arthur Owens. After a two-day trial which involved hearing the testimony of eight witnesses, Jakobs was found guilty of spying and sentenced to death. Jakobs's execution took place at the miniature rifle range in the grounds of the Tower of London on 15 August
Josef Wüst Josef Wüst Josef Wüst (March 11, 1925 – February 19, 2003) was an Austrian journalist, editor-in-chief and publisher. Josef Wüst was born in Velika Greda, Podunavlje Oblast, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes, the third child of the Wüst family, and spent his early life together with his siblings Franz and Elisabeth on their parents' farm. He was in secondary school in the nearby town of Vršac during World War II when the Balkan Campaign began in 1941 in the then Kingdom of Yugoslavia, and the language of education changed from Serbian to German. In fall 1944 Germans had to