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Alfred Redl (14 March 1864 – 25 May 1913) was an Austro-Hungarian military officer who rose to head the Evidenzbureau, the counterintelligence wing of the General Staff of the Austro-Hungarian Army.
Colonel Redl ( German: Oberst Redl (original title); Hungarian: Redl ezredes) is a 1985 biographical drama film by Hungarian director István Szabó. The plot, set in the period before World War I, follows the rise of Alfred Redl, an officer in the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
Sep 9, 2016 · Colonel Alfred Redl became Russia’s leading spy, as he was the most effective and the highly ranked within the Austro-Hungarian military. He delivered the Russians Plan III, which was the elaborate plan for the invasion of the Kingdom of Serbia.
Set in the lead up to WWI, Szabó's Cannes Grand Jury-winning Colonel Redl charts the rise of Alfred Redl to head of counter-intelligence of the Austro-Hungar...
On 25 May 1913 Colonel Alfred Redl, the former head of Austria-Hungary’s military espionage, committed suicide in Vienna. As it turned out, Redl had betrayed Austria-Hungary’s spy-network in Russia and had sold sensitive information on war preparations to the Czar’s military intelligence.
A Patriot for Whom? Colonel Redl and a question of Identity. Alan Sked looks at the sensational leaking of Austrian military secrets to Russia on the eve of the First World War. Alan Sked | Published in History Today Volume 36 Issue 7 July 1986.
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May 25, 2017 · The Austrian General Staff, learning with horror of Redl’s treason, dispatched a delegation of four high-ranking officers. A Browning pistol was laid on Redl’s table, and the four officers waited in the street below for Redl to do the only honorable thing left and to commit suicide.
