Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Scotland (1882-1965) In February 1947 some strange headlines appeared in British newspapers such as: “MI5 officer was on Nazi General Staff!” and “Britain’s Master Spy!”. Of course, the headlines were all poppycock as newspaper headlines generally are. But beneath those headlines lurked a story of a first …
Anton Copperlee (? – 19/5/15) One of the great mysteries of espionage is that you do not know what awaits you in the land of the enemy. Not all heroes of espionage were a success. Like troops leaping out of a trench, sometimes a spy is doomed before they even …
One of the fascinations of espionage history is that it is full of incidents so bizarre that you could not make them up. So while we wait to hear whether US intelligence did or did not justify the assassination of Soleimani, here is the answer to the question: who was …
A colleague has just returned from Australia where she came across an intriguing little mystery. She was told that this was a case of espionage. We have concluded that it was not, but it is interesting nonetheless. It shows the way that people believe that spies work – and how …
This is the story of the Portland Spy Ring, the last of the three great cases from what one author has called: “The Golden Age of Treachery” (the other two being the Cambridge Spies and George Blake). Although the movie was given a cinematic release in 1964, it is so …