The Counterfeit Traitor is a 1962 espionage thriller film starring William Holden, Hugh Griffith, and Lilli Palmer.

Holden plays an American-born Swedish citizen who is forced to spy on the Nazis in World War II.

Erickson begins his job reluctantly, as it causes marital discord and forces him to pose as a Nazi.

Besides, Griffith recorded the meeting, He is influenced in making this moral decision by one of his contacts in Germany, a religious woman (Lilli Palmer) who gives him guidance on the meaning of life and right and wrong.

Erickson has a number of close calls, but eventually escapes to Sweden in a harrowing sea voyage.