Churchill's Spy Files

by Nigel West

  25 March and April 1945, undated

  1 John Olday was arrested on a charge of incitement, having printed a circular letter addressed to troops on a press established in Philip Sansom’s studio. KV 2/3599; KV 2/3597; KV 2/3588.

  2 Kingdom of Rags (London: Jarrolds, 1939)

  3 Helmut von Rauschenplat was employed by the Political Warfare Executive. See his MI5 file, KV6/106.

  26 11 June 1945

  1 See In Durance Vile by John Brown (London: Robert Hale, 1981).

  2 For William Joyce’s biography, see Haw-Haw by Nigel Farndale (London: Macmillan, 2005).

  3 Norman Baillie-Stewart was convicted of espionage for the Germans in March 1933 and sentenced to three years’ imprisonment. His autobiography is Officer in the Tower (London: Leslie Frewin, 1967).

  4 For John Amery’s biography, see Patriot Traitors by Adrian Weale (London: Viking, 2001).

  5 A Spy Has No Friends (London: Andre Deutsch. 1952). For Seth’s SOE file, see HS9/1345. For his MI5 file, see KV2/378.

  27 HARLEQUIN

  1 Eiserne Kreuz First Class.

  2 See Hans Scharf, Chapter 17.

  3 The Caudron Affair was a reference to Bedaux’s director of his French companies, Jean Caudron.

  28 GARBO

  1 Aracelli Pujol contacted the assistant US naval attaché, Theodore Rousseau Jr, Born in Freeport, Long Island, Rousseau was a distinguished art historian who was educated at Eton and the Sorbonne. His post-war career was at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, and he died in December 1973, aged 61.

  2 The Swiss agent was William Gerbers.

  3 The W/T operator was Charles Haines.

  4 Reinhard Spitzy released an autobiography, How We Squandered the Reich (London: Michael Russell, 1997).

  Postscript

  1 Having created the organisation in the first place, MI5 failed to retain the Radio Security Service, which became SIS’s Radio Intelligence Section in May 1941.

  2 The Double Cross System in the War of 1939–1945 by J.C. Masterman (New Haven, Conn: Yale, 1972).

  3 The Ultra Secret by F.W. Winterbotham (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1974).

  4 MI5: British Security Service Operations 1909–45 by Nigel West (London: Bodley Head, 1981).

  5 Strategic Deception in Wotld War II by Michael Howard (London: HMSO, 1981). KV4/83.

  6 FORTITUDE: The D-Day Deception Campaign by Roger Hesketh (London: St Ermin’s Press, 1999).

  7 See National Archives file KV4/83.