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Operation Lena
Operation Lena was a failed spy operation that was started in 1940 by Herbert Wichmann, head of the Hamburg Branch of Abwehr. It was very short-lived, as all twenty spies selected for the mission were deemed inept, and were not provided with adequate training. Soon after arriving in Britain, they were all individually captured. Of the twenty, seventeen were excecuted, two imprisoned, and Vera Schalburg, the only woman of the group, was the only spy who was pardoned, leading to historians believing that she may have been a double agent all along. In addition to this, only two of these people actually supported the Nazi regime, and the rest of the people involved are suspected to have simply been in it for the money, or were planning to switch sides anyway. On top of this, only two people (not necessarily the Nazi supporters) were in fact German. The rest were from Norway, the Netherlands, Denmark, Belgium, and Cuba (the Cubans having come from a French refugee camp were not sent as spies, but with a sabotage mission).

There is speculation that Operation Lena was an attempt to sabotage the Nazi regime, as it was somewhat of a precursor to Operation Sea Lion, and likely an attempt to prevent it.

Sources:
Main source: Quora. Retrieved 2022-01-23


 * Additional information
 * 'Organised chaos' of the Third Reich

Secondary source: the Guardian. 2014-08-22. Retrieved 2022-01-23.