Month: October 2018

Book Review – Operation LENA and Hitler’s Plots to Blow Up Britain – Bernard O’Connor (2017)

The Book Operation Lena and Hitler’s Plots to Blow Up Britain. Bernard O’Connor. Amberley Publishing. 2017. Summary and Review I bought this book last year with excitement. I knew a bit about some of the sabotage plans concocted by MI5 using their double agents (G.W., MUTT & JEFF, ZIGZAG) and was intrigued to learn more. […]

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Upcoming Book – The Beautiful Spy: The Life and Crimes of Vera Eriksen by David Tremain (2019)

Super-excited! A book on Vera Eriksen is coming out February 2019 by a friend of mine, David Tremain. It is also being published by The History Press (publishers of my book on Josef Jakobs). The blurb notes: Often described as ‘the most beautiful spy’, Vera Eriksen could almost rival First World War spy Mata Hari

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Robin W.G. Stephens – Some more leads

I had emailed Christopher Andrew (author of the authorized history of MI5 – Defend the Realm/Defence of the Realm) a few weeks back asking if he had any further information on Robin W.G. Stephens, commandant of MI5’s secret interrogation centre, Camp 020. Specifically, I was interested in any information on Stephens’ death. Andrew replied back

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Robin W.G. Stephens and the Estrangement wrought by War

A few years ago, I received an email from a cousin of Robin W.G. Stephens (commandant of Camp 020). Robin had an aunt… and this cousin is the grandson of the aunt. I think. I had applied for Stephens’ army records in 2016 but, without a family connection, I received the sanitized version of his

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