* Wolfgang Lotz; ‘Champagne Spy’ Worked for Israel in Egypt

Wolfgang Lotz, 73, known as “the champagne spy” for his extravagant Israeli-financed lifestyle while he worked in Egypt. Born in Germany, the blond, blue-eyed Lotz fled with his mother to British-ruled Palestine after Adolf Hitler’s rise to power in 1933. He served with the British army during World War II and later the Israeli army. Recruited by Israel’s Mossad spy agency to infiltrate groups of former Nazi scientists working in Egypt, he posed as an ex-Nazi horse trainer and playboy. He operated in Egypt from 1961 until 1965, when he was arrested, and uncovered secrets that later aided Israel’s victory in the 1967 Middle East War. He was imprisoned until 1968 and eventually returned to Germany. He published his memoirs, “Mission to Cairo,” in Israel. On Thursday in Munich of heart trouble.