11 Facts About Johnny Jebsen

Early in his life, Johnny Jebsen considered his citizenship a convenience, with deep roots remaining in his Danish ancestry.

Johnny Jebsen attended the University of Freiburg during the 1930s, where he became close friends with Dusko Popov.

At the outset of World War II, Johnny Jebsen joined the German military intelligence agency, the, largely to avoid compulsory service in the army.

Johnny Jebsen was given a vague brief as an independent "researcher" and assigned the rank of private.

In 1940, Johnny Jebsen arranged an introduction between a senior officer in Belgrade and Dusko Popov, whom the Germans hoped to recruit as an agent.

Johnny Jebsen married Eleonore Bothilde Peterson, an actress from Frankfurt, but had a string of mistresses across Europe.

On, Johnny Jebsen was abducted from Lisbon, Portugal, and driven overnight to France.

Johnny Jebsen had been privy to a great deal of information, including knowledge of Popov's double agent role and that Agent GARBO's network of subagents was a fiction.

Johnny Jebsen was first taken to the Gestapo headquarters in Berlin where his torture and interrogation began.

In July 1944, Johnny Jebsen was moved to Sachsenhausen concentration camp.

Johnny Jebsen told Allied soldiers, held in the camp, that he had been accused of helping the British and when he had refused to talk, his financial fraud had been investigated.