I must admit I am starting to wonder if the 'Parachutist death' may me a bit of mis-information.... and while all other German Spies have been 'identified' this has never...
Would be interesting to see if a body was recovered
As some some of the published data does not 'match up'.... and some spies were captured and 'just vanished' and not executed or put back to use as double cross.. I just wonder if this may have be an elaborate ruse to fool the germans some way... Just a thought...
There are a couple of other instances of German spies being caught which I can't pin down to and indivual namely...
"Three of the anonymous members of the Lena Team managed to drop to their pinpoints, bury their parachutes, and make their their separate ways undetected almost to their destinations.
One of them reached London but was caught the day he got there after his first dinner in a Soho restaurant; he handed the waitress some food coupons for his for his meal. The Abwehr did not know that none was required in British restaurants..
The other came a cropper when buying a railroad ticket for Bristol, the city to which he had been assigned. The clerk told him that the price was "ten and and six," and the police were called when the man handed over ten pounds and six shillings.
The mystery man of the team — the "Dutch refugee" called "Jan Villen Ter Braak" (actually Engelbertus Fukken) in his phony papers phony papers — was found shot dead in a deserted air-raid shelter in Cambridge. He must have been killed or committed suicide shortly after his arrival, for he still had the familiar suitcase with his belongings and his Afu set.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willem_Ter_Braak