Operation Innkeeper was an aborted plan devised in Autumn 1941 to send two Irish Abwehr

Abwehr

The Abwehr was a German military intelligence organisation from 1921 to 1944. The term Abwehr was used as a concession to Allied demands that Germany's post-World War I intelligence activities be for "defensive" purposes only...

 agents to London on a sabotage mission.

One of the two agents was John Codd

John Codd

John Codd was an Irish national who, after being captured as a British Army corporal during World War II, went on to serve in the German Intelligence service and SS Intelligence.-Early life:...

, an Irish national captured while serving in the British Army

British Army

The British Army is the land warfare branch of Her Majesty's Armed Forces in the United Kingdom. It came into being with the unification of the Kingdom of England and Scotland into the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1707. The new British Army incorporated Regiments that had already existed in England...

 in 1940. While radio and sabotage training for Innkeeper did take place the plan was aborted due to the general collapse of German efforts to train and recruit suitable Irish agents as part of its Friesack Camp

Friesack Camp

Friesack Camp or Camp Friesack is a name commonly used to refer to a special World War II POW camp where a group of Irishmen serving in the British Army volunteered for recruitment and selection by Abwehr II and the German Army. The camp was designated Stalag XX A and located in the Friesack...

 experiment.

Further Information/Sources

• Mark M. Hull, Irish Secrets. German Espionage in Wartime Ireland 1939-1945, 2003, ISBN 978-0-7165-2756-5
• Enno Stephan, Spies in Ireland, 1963, ISBN 1-131-82692-2 (reprint)
• J Bowyer Bell
  J. Bowyer Bell
  J. Bowyer Bell was an American historian, artist and art critic.-Background and early life:Bell was born into an Episcopalian family on 15 November 1931 in New York City. The family later moved to Alabama, from where Bell attended Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia, majoring in...
  
  , The Secret Army - The IRA 1997 3rd Edition, ISBN 1-85371-813-0