Kommandant Albrecht Brandi, Doppelfernrohr 8x60 BEH (Leitz), circa 1944

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Doppelfernrohr BEH (Leitz) 8x60 Belonged to Commander Albrecht Brandi who gave it as a gift, immediately after the war, to Mario de Monte considered the number one secret agent of the Royal Italian Navy from 1939 to 1943, the one who directed the sophisticated wiretapping apparatus secrets as Director of the SIS, acronym for "Secret Information Service" of the Royal Italian Navy and, following the Armistice, appointed Director of the SID, acronym for "Defense Information Service" of the Italian Social Republic.

We know what united the fate and careers of Albrecht Brandi and Mario de Monte thanks to the information reported in an original document, dated 24 October 1942, in which the Ministry of the Navy, the only authority capable of issuing directives to SIS, or the "General Directorate of Personnel and Military Services" in the figure of the "General Director", orders the then Lieutenant Mario de Monte, Head of the "Secret Information Service" Office of the Royal Italian Navy (headquartered at same Ministry), to go to the 29th Unterseebootflottille stationed in La Spezia to arrange and assist safe routes, thanks to its role, its ability and experience, for the entry into the Mediterranean waters of some German submarines coming from the Atlantic, through the Strait of Gibraltar, which was heavily patrolled by Anglo-American shipping, in what was defined as the "2nd Mediterranean Patrol" or "Mediterranean U-boat campaign". It is on this occasion that he had, under his instructions and directives, the submarines "Unterseeboot-259/407/595/596/617/755" and among these, Commander Albrecht Brandi at the head of the Unterseeboot 617.

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