Talk:Elyesa Bazna

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In the Jan 11, 1971 issue of Time magazine, they report that he died of kidney disease; in Munich. They also state that "in 1960, Bazna emigrated to Germany, where he most recently worked as a night watchman in Munich."

[edit] Discrepancy

Bazna published his book I am Cicero in 1962. The film 5 Fingers was made in 1951 and released in 1952. It used another book, Operation Cicero, by L.C. Moyzisch, published in 1950. Orbicle 11:16, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Ethnicity/Nationality

Searches on Google for "Elyesa Bazna" +Turk return about 14 hits, while "Elyesa Bazna" +Albania return about 650. The situation would appear to be that he was born to a Moslem family in Pristina, Kosovo, in 1904, which at that time was still part of the Ottoman Empire, and that his family moved to Istanbul after the Ottomans' defeat in the Balkan Wars of 1912-13, so it would appear that "Turkish" is the appropriate description of his nationality, and would certainly account for his employment at the British embassy in Ankara. -- Arwel (talk) 22:48, 9 November 2006 (UTC)