Captain Sigismund Payne Best OBE (14 April 1885 – 21 September 1978) was a British Secret Intelligence Service agent during the First and Second World Wars. He was captured by German Gestapo and Sicherheitsdienst (SD) men on 9 November 1939 in the Venlo Incident.[1][2]
^Watt, D. Cameron. Best, Sigismund Payne (1885–1978), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press (2004).
^"Der Venlo-Zwischenfall".
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