Simon Emil Koedel

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Simon Emil Koedel was a sleeper agent for the German Abwehr activated during World War II. Operating primarily in New York City, Koedel monitored American ports and US military suppliers. One of the most successful spies of the war, Koedel obtained and forwarded to the Abwehr volumes of information about US companies involved in the war effort over many years; information which he obtained by ironically posing as a concerned shareholder and businessman within the military-industrial supply chain.