[Telegraph-UK] Nick Squires - 14 prisoners were hurriedly moved out of Rome by the retreating Germans on June 4, 1944, the day that the city was liberated by the advancing British and Americans, taken to the outskirts of the capital and shot in the back of the head by their SS guards. 13 were later identified, 7 of whom had been working as agents for OSS, the American intelligence agency. But the last remained unknown, his final resting place marked by a plaque on a tree which read in Italian "the Unknown Englishman" and rumored to be a British Army officer, Captain John Armstrong. Now Italian investigative journalist Gian Paolo Pellizzaro has established that the special agent was Gabor Adler, a Hungarian Jew who had been recruited by the British Special Operations Executive.
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