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Karl Heinz Marbach

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Years of service
  
1937–45 1963–66


Name
  
Karl-Heinz Marbach

Born
  
5 July 1917 Kolberg (
1917-07-05
)

Allegiance
  
Nazi Germany (to 1945)  West Germany

Service/branch
  
Kriegsmarine  German Navy

Rank
  
Kapitanleutnant (Kriegsmarine) Korvettenkapitan of the reserves (Bundesmarine)

Unit
  
SSS Horst Wessel cruiser Emden cruiser Leipzig U-101

Died
  
September 27, 1995, Bonn, Germany

Awards
  
Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross

Commands held
  
German submarine U-29, German submarine U-28, German submarine U-953, German submarine U-3014

Karl-Heinz Marbach (5 July 1917 – 27 September 1995) was a German officer who served in the Kriegsmarine, the navy of Nazi Germany, during World War II, and later in the West German Navy. From 1950 to 1959 he was Principal Agent of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency-funded network with the codename LCCASSOCK, which was one of CIA's Psychological warfare efforts directed against Eastern Germany.

Awards

  • Iron Cross (1939) 2nd Class (14 April 1940) & 1st Class (21 November 1943)
  • Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross on 22 July 1944 as Oberleutnant zur See and commander of U-953

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