Month: September 2017

Mysterious Notebook – Possible Assignation Characters

Over the last few blogs, we’ve taken a look at the mysterious notebook that showed up at Josef Jakobs’ court martial on August 4, 1941. According to Josef, the notebook contained times, dates and locations where he could meet other agents and get further funds, if he needed them. I’ve dissected various aspects of the […]

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The Contents of the Mysterious Notebook presented at the Court Martial of Josef Jakobs

It’s taken a few blogs to get to the actual contents of the notebook referenced at Josef’s court martial, but I think it’s been a necessary preamble. Josef apparently hadn’t seen the notebook since he left The Hague and it wasn’t included in any of his lists of possessions drawn up by the Ramsey Police

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Mysterious Notebook referenced in Camp 020 Interrogations

A couple of blogs ago, I introduced another notebook mystery from the files of German spy, Josef Jakobs. During his court martial on August 4 and 5, 1941, Josef was presented with a notebook, contained in a wallet, which apparently contained dates, times and locations of possible assignations with other German agents. I initially thought

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Tracking the Mysterious Notebook

In the last blog, I introduced another notebook mystery from the files of German spy, Josef Jakobs. During his court martial on August 4 and 5, 1941, Josef was presented with a notebook, contained in a wallet, which apparently contained dates, times and locations of possible assignations with other German agents. I initially thought this

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Mysterious Notebook at the Court Martial of German Spy Josef Jakobs

Over the last couple of years, I have written a series of blogs about a couple of mysterious notebooks found in the KV 2/27 file on Josef Jakobs at the National Archives. The two notebooks, one blue and the other black, belonged to a lad named Kenneth Clifford Howard. Given that there was not a

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