Operation Monastery

Protagonist

Fritz Kauders / “Max-Moritz”

Period

1939-1945

Nature

Deception

Main location

Vienna, Austria · Austria

MICE motive

Compromise — blackmail

A double agent run by the GRU, Kauders (“Klatt”) flooded the German Abwehr with false intelligence. To make it credible, Moscow deliberately sacrificed its own units — the “wounded-man stratagem” — contributing to the German errors at Stalingrad.