Elyesa Bazna

Elyesa Bazna , born Iliaz Bazda , was a World War II secret agent. He was an Albanian from Kosovo who spied for the Germans during the Second World War, and was widely known by his code name Cicero. He sold information to the Germans through their attach Ludwig Carl Moyzisch , in Ankara, Turkey in what became known as the Cicero affair. The information that he leaked is believed to have been potentially among the more damaging disclosures made by a Second World War spy but conflicts inside the highest echelons of the German government meant that little if any of it was acted upon.

Elyesa Bazna was born in 1904 in Pristina, Kosovo. His parents were of Albanian heritage. At the time of Baznas birth, Kosovo was part of the Ottoman Empire, but when he wasSerbs occupied his birthplace and his family relocated to Istanbul, Turkey, which was occupied by World War I allied forces, the British, Italians and Americans. Writer Yakub Kadri Karaosmanolu said the allied forces considered all the cruelty and oppression committed by them against the people as lawful. The underground Turkish National Movement began in opposition of the occupying forces. At the age of 16, Bazna joined a French military unit in Istanbul. He claimed to have stolen allied weapons and cars for the nationalists. Bazna was caught stealing and was sent to a penal labor camp in France for three years.

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