Month: February 2016

Another Dead-End with Tin-Eye Stephens

A few weeks back, I ordered the Army Personnel Record for Robert/Robin William George Stephens, former Commandant of MI5’s wartime interrogation centre, Camp 020. I’ve discovered quite a bit about Stephens through other sources, but his date of death still eludes me. Given that Hinchley-Cooke’s Army file noted his death, I had hopes that Stephens’

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RSLO Cambridge – Cyril Egerton Dixon

In the early years of World War II, particularly 1940 and 1941, MI5 was inundated with reports of suspicious people, flashing lights, strange markings on telegraph poles and spies dressed as nuns. In the middle of June 1940, MI5 appointed Regional Security Liaison Officers (R.S.L.O.) to the headquarters of the two Civil Defence Regions seen

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Capture of German Spy, Josef Jakobs – 75th Anniversary

2016 marks the 75th anniversary of Josef Jakobs’ ill-fated espionage mission to England. On the evening of January 31, 1941, Josef parachuted down from a Heinkel 111 aircraft. Having broken his ankle during his exit from the plain, Josef lay in agony for 12 hours before attracting the attention of some passing farmers on the

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