BONNER FELLERS

'Bonner Frank Fellers' (1896 - 1973), during World War II, was a Colonel who served as the USA military attaché to Cairo, Egypt.
Adolph Hitler called Feller "our good source" because, for months during the darkest days of WW II, he acted recklessly in collecting and then sending military facts and gossip concerning Malta, North Africa and the Mediterranean, (learned from Allies who had trusted his discretion too much), to Gen. George C. Marshall by radio dispatches encoded in the US "Black Code" which had been stolen by an Italian spy and given to the Germans.
German Naval Intelligence used Feller's unnecessarily voluminous information to help sink Allied convoys that were attempting to deliver vital war supplies to Malta, increasing the starvation and suffering of the embattled citizens of that vital island, and making possible some of Gen. Erwin Rommel's early victories in North Africa. For this incompetence Feller was fired as an attache.
(General Dwight D. Eisenhower gave "the cut direct", a back-turning insult, to an English beauty who expressed admiration for Fellers, after saying "Any friend of Benner Fellers is no friend of mine!" Quote from "At All Costs" by Sam Moses.)
Fellers was later promoted to Brigadier General and assigned to the Pacific where he served as the Chief of Psychological Operations under General Douglas MacArthur. He played a major role during the occupation of Japan by meeting the major criminal suspects of the Tokyo tribunal and, according to historian Herbert Bix, allowing them to coordinate their stories to exonerate Emperor Showa (H. Bix, ''Hirohito and the making of modern Japan'', 2000, p.583.) In October 1946, Fellers was demobilized by George Marshall and Dwight Eisenhower and demoted to colonel for his actions. He then began to work for the Republican National Committee in Washington. (P and S Seagrave, ''The Yamato dynasty'', 1999, p.216)