Editing Eddie Chapman (section)

===Return to London===
After [[Operation Overlord]], he was sent back to Britain to report on the accuracy of the [[V-1 flying bomb|V-1]] weapon and the [[Hedgehog (weapon)|Hedgehog]] antisubmarine weapon. He parachuted into [[Cambridgeshire]] on 29 June 1944 and went to London. Here he consistently reported to the Germans that the bombs were hitting their [[central London]] target, when in fact they were undershooting. Perhaps as a result of this disinformation, the Germans never corrected their aim, with the end result that most bombs landed in the [[south London]] suburbs or the [[Kent]] countryside, doing far less damage than they otherwise might have done.<ref>Nicholas Booth, Zigzag – The Incredible Wartime Exploits of Double Agent Eddie Chapman, 2007, Portrait, London ({{ISBN|0749951567}}), pp. 280–81.</ref>

During this period he was also involved in doping of dogs in [[greyhound racing]] and was associating with criminal elements in West End nightclubs. He was also indiscreet about the sources of his income and so MI5, being unable to control him, dismissed him on 2 November 1944.<ref name = obituaries/> Chapman was given a £6,000 payment from MI5 and was allowed to keep £1,000 of the money the Germans had given him. He was granted a pardon for his pre-war activities and was reported by MI5 to have been living "in fashionable places in London always in the company of beautiful women of apparent culture".<ref name="telegraph"/>