Rodney Young arrived in Cairo in May 1943 and moved into a hand-some three‑story stone villa near the Greek legation. A staffer showed the spymaster to his room, which he found to be completely empty, not a stick of furniture in sight. He set down his bags and, the next morning, began to create an intelligence network out of thin air. The city was less frenetic than it had been the year before when Erwin Rommel’s advance sparked the embassies an…
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