Churchill's Spy Files
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Real name of an SIS double-agent code-named PUPPET. He operated in London and reported via HAMLET in Portugal.
Georges Feyguine
A French fighter pilot and naval officer, Feyguine declared his recruitment by the Abwehr when he reached Gibraltar in June 1943. He was eventually interned at Camp X on the Isle of Man. His father-in-law was Colonel Elie Golenko.
Jean Fraval
French pilot sent to England to steal an aircraft in 1943; he was detained at Camp 020 until he was returned to France in May 1945. KV 2/2446; KV 2/2447; KV 2/2448.
Ernst Fresenius
A German who had acquired Icelandic citizenship, Fresenius was arrested after having been landed by U-boat in Iceland in April 1944. He was arrested and interrogated at Camp 020, where he remained until he was deported by air from Hendon in August 1945. KV2/3009; KV2/3010.
Alfred Gabas
A French former naval officer recruited by the Abwehr as a stay-behind spy in Cherbourg, he was captured in 1944 and interrogated at Camp 020. KV2/210.
Manuel Perez Garcia
A Spanish security officer attached to the embassy in Buenos Aires, Perez was detained in Trinidad and transferred to Camp 020. He was repatriated in 1945. KV2/2443.
Arthur Garitte
A Belgian SD agent alias Wanstein who defected in September 1944 and was detained at Camp 020.
Johannes de Graaf
A Canadian recruited by the Abwehr, de Graaf was detained at Camp 020 when he arrived in England. KV 2/125.
Ben Greene
A Quaker detained having been denounced in 1940 by an MI5 informant. LCO 2/1454.
Magnus Gudbjornsson
An Icelandic spy arrested upon his arrival in April 1944. He was detained at Camp 020 and deported from Hendon in August 1945. KV2/123.
Yves Guilcher
A French stay-behind agent in Bayeux arrested in June 1944 and sent to Camp 020. KV2/211; KV2/212; KV2/213.
Elie Gwozdawo-Golenko
A White Russian employed as an intercept operator by the Abwehr in Paris. Detained in London and sent to Camp 020 in November 1944; KV 2/315; KV 2/316; KV 2/317.
Nikolay Hansen
A Norwegian miner and Abwehr agent who parachuted into Scotland in September 1943 and was detained at Camp 020. KV2/1936.
Jock Haston
A former CPGB member, he split the Party to organise a Trotskyite rival, the Revolutionary Communist Party, in 1934. He died in 1986.
Osmar Hellmuth
An Argentine SD agent of German origin, he was arrested in Trinidad on the Cabo de Hornos on 29 October 1943, flown to Bermuda and then taken by HMS Ajax to Plymouth. He was detained at Camp 020. KV 2/1722; KV 2/1723; KV 2/1724.
Gerald Hewitt
A British renegade convicted of treason in 1946 after he had broadcast for the Nazis. He was sentenced to twelve years’ imprisonment. K2/427; HO45/24474.
Gudbrandur Hlidar
An Icelander arrested at Prestwick in February 1945 having arrived from Stockholm. He was detained at Camp 020 and admitted to having acted as a talent-spotter for the Abwehr. He was deported from Hendon in August 1945 and died in 1997. KV 2/214; KV 2/215; KV 2/216.
Prince Max von Hohenlohe
An influential Abwehr agent in Spain, he died in 1968 at the age of 71.
Ernesto Hoppe
An Argentine recruited by the Abwehr in Holland in 1936, Hoppe was arrested in Gibraltar while travelling to Buenos Aires and detained at Camp 020. KV 2/2636.
Jean Huysmans
A Belgian Abwehr agent arrested in Lisbon in May 1943, deported and detained at Camp 020, where he became the librarian. KV 2/295.
Waldemar Janowsky
An Abwehr double-agent arrested in November 1942 in Canada, he was code-named WATCHDOG and was later transferred to Camp 020.
Joseph Janssens
A Belgian Abwehr agent, he was arrested in Portugal in 1943, deported to England and detained at Camp 020. KV 2/1934.
Oswald Job
A British refugee and Abwehr agent, he was arrested in London, convicted and hanged at Pentonville in March 1944; KV 2/501; KV 2/51; KV 2/52.
Leon Jude
A pre-war Sabena pilot, Jude was a Belgian recruited by the Abwehr in 1940 for a mission to the United States. He was arrested in 1942, incriminated by SNIPER and detained at Camp 020R until 1945, when he was deported to Belgium. KV 2/375.
Sigardur Juliusson
An Icelandic spy for the Abwehr landed by U-boat on Iceland in April 1944 with Ernst Fresenius and Hjalti Bjornsson. He was arrested and interrogated at Camp 020, where he remained until he was deported from Hendon in August 1945. KV2/3009.
Emil Kliemann
An Abwehr officer based in Paris and interrogated in September 1944. KV 2/278.
Fernando Kobbe
The Spanish consul in Vancouver in 1943, he was suspected of being a Japanese spy. KV 2/637; KV2/638.
Johann Koessler
An Austrian Jewish businessman in Lisbon and MI5 double-agent code-named HAMLET.
Lagall
A Frenchman arrested in London in January 1945 and detained. Later identified as an Abwehr agent by Hermann Rainer, he was deported to France. See Guy Liddell’s Diary entry for 6 August 1943.
Hans Laski
A German spy bound for Argentina. Laski was intercepted at Trinidad in March 1943 and detained at Camp 020.
Josef von Ledebur-Wicheln
A senior Abwehr officer in Paris and later aide to Colonel Georg Hansen, the Graf von Ledebur defected to the British embassy in Madrid in 1944. KV2/159.
Robey Leibbrandt
A South African Abwehr assassin arrested in Pretoria in December 1941 and imprisoned. KV 2/924.
Oscar Liehr
An Argentine arrested in Trinidad in June 1943, he was detained at Camp 020. KV 2/2112; KV 2/2113; FO 1093/258.
Christiaan Lindemanns
Dutch resistance leader code-named KING KONG and an Abwehr spy. He was arrested in November 1944, detained at Camp 020, but committed suicide in 1946. KV 2/233 – KV 2/237.
Fritz Lorenz
A member of Ribbentrop Bureau, war correspondent and SD officer captured in France, Lorenz was interrogated at Camp 020 in October 1944 and then employed by PWE in March 1945 to broadcast propaganda. GFM 33/93/87/2; KV2/310.
Alfredo Manna
An Italian intelligence officer under Stefano News Agency cover in Lourenço Marques, he was lured to Swaziland by Anna Levy, abducted by SIS to South Africa and transferred to Camp 020. KV 2/1107; KV 2/1108.
Sverir Matthiason
An Icelandic spy arrested upon his arrival in April 1944. He was detained at Camp 020 and deported from Hendon in August 1945. KV2/122.
Franz Mayr
Abwehr officer arrested in Tehran in August 1943. KV 2/1477; KV2/1479; KV 2/1480; KV 2/1482; KV 2/1483.
Rogerio de Menezes
Portuguese diplomat at the embassy in London and Abwehr spy arrested in February 1943. Condemned to death in April 1943 but sentence commuted. FO 1093/256; PCOM 9/993.
Ray Milne
An SIS secretary, née Mundell, in contact with the CPGB’s Douglas Springhall. Mrs Milne was dismissed but never charged.
Alfred Naujocks
An SD officer arrested in October 1944 in France and detained at Camp 020. KV 2/280.
Pierre Neukermans
A Belgian pilot and Abwehr spy, Neukermans was arrested in London in February 1944 and executed in June 1944. KV 2/53.
José Olivera
A radio operator on a Spanish ship sailing from Buenos Aires, he was arrested by a Dutch patrol vessel and transferred to Camp 020 in November 1943. KV 2/1938.
José Pacheco
A Cuban dancer and Abwehr spy, he was arrested in Trinidad while en route to Cuba in March 1943 and detained at Camp 020. KV 2/296; KV 2/297.
Jens Palsson
The radio operator of the Arctic, an Icelandic trawler, Palsson was arrested in Reykjavik in 1942 and interrogated at Camp 020. He
was deported from Hendon in August 1945. KV2/1147.
Louis de la Panouse
The son of the former French military attaché in London, General de la Panouse, he was suspected of clandestine correspondence with Violet Trefusis.
Antonio Pastor
The London University professor of Spanish. He was an MI5 contact but considered by the Abwehr as a possible future agent.
José Polo
A Spaniard recruited by the Abwehr in Kiel, he was arrested in Gibraltar in January 1943;he was detained at Camp 020. He was deported to Spain in 1945. KV 2/1943; KV2/1944.
Poussin
The French lover of Mathilde Bertrand.
Hermann Rainer
An SD officer who deserted to the Allies while on a sabotage mission in France in 1945; he was detained at Camp 020. Under the alias Ernest Hermann Reinsberg he acquired British citizenship in July 1947. HO 334/184/29244.
Robert Robson
A senior CPGB figure as London District Organiser and member of the Control Commission, he was under MI5 surveillance from 1922 to his death in 1951. A recruiter for the International Brigade during the Spanish Civil War, he was convicted of handling stolen goods in 1931. KV 2/1177; KV 2/1179.
Joaquin Ruiz
Arrested aboard the Cabo de Hornos in Trinidad in August 1943, he was an Abwehr courier and was detained at Camp 020. He was deported to Spain in 1945. KV 2/1716; KV 2/1717; KV 2/1718.
Hans Ruser
An Abwehr defector previously based in Lisbon, code-named JUNIOR by MI5 and ARTHUR by SIS; he was detained briefly at Camp 020 after he had been exfiltrated from Madrid in November 1943.
Peter Schagen
An Abwehr II saboteur in France in a 1944 stay-behind organisation, he defected to the Americans in Madrid, but was detained at Camp 020 in October 1944 and deported to France. KV 2/161.
Hans Scharf
An Abwehr officer actually named Schneider, captured by the French in Algeria in December 1943 and transferred to Camp 020 in July 1944. KV 2/207; KV2/208; KV2/209.
Nathalie Sergueiev
MI5 double-agent code-named TREASURE but known to the Abwehr as TRAMP. KV 2/466.
Olive Sheehan
Air Ministry clerk and Soviet spy, convicted in London in 1943 with Douglas Springhall. KV 2/1596; KV 2/1598.
Sibart
French espionage suspect.
Einar Sigvaldason
An Abwehr agent landed by U-boat on Iceland on 17 April 1944 with Larus Thorsteinsson. He was arrested and interrogated at Camp 020 before being interned on the Isle of Man. He was deported from Hendon in August 1945. KV2/121; KV2/122; KV2/123.
Douglas Springhall
The CPGB National Organiser and a Soviet spy convicted of espionage in London in 1943, Springhall was in contact with Ormond Uren, Olive Sheehan and Ray Milne. KV 2/1597.
Frank Steiner
A Belgian journalist and Abwehr agent, he was arrested in April 1943 upon his arrival from Lisbon and detained at Camp 020. He was flown back to Belgium in February 1945 and executed. KV 2/1165.
Pierre Sweerts
A Belgian SD agent, he gave himself up to the Allies in Holland in September 1944 and was detained at Camp 020. He later joined an intelligence unit. KV 2/230.
Larus Thorsteinsson
An Abwehr agent landed by U-boat on Iceland on 17 April 1944 with Einar Sigvaldason. He was arrested and interrogated at Camp 020 but moved to the Brompton Hospital for treatment in May 1944 before being transferred to Brixton. Both men were deported in August 1945. KV2/121; KV2/122; KV2/123.
Justin Tocabens
A Frenchman recruited by the Abwehr who operated a wireless in Barcelona. He surrendered to the Free French and was interrogated at Camp 020 in July 1944, but was flown back to Algiers in August.
Petur Tomsen
An Icelander landed by U-boat from Norway, Tomsen adopted the alias Jens Fridrikson and was sent to Camp 020 in September 1943. He was recruited as a double-agent, code-named BEETLE.
Violet Trefusis
Virginia Woolf’s lesbian lover, Violet Trefusis was the daughter of Alice Keppel, the mistress of King Edward VII. She was married to Denys Trefusis and broadcast on the Free French radio station La Voix de la France Libre during the war.
Ormond Uren
SOE officer convicted of passing secrets to Douglas Springhall. KV 2/1596; KV2/1597; KV 2/1698.
Guzman Urzaiz
A Spanish banker, he was arrested in Trinidad in October 1843 when returning from an Abwehr mission to Cuba. KV 2/3288.
Joseph Vanhove
Belgian waiter and Abwehr agent, he was arrested upon arrival from Sweden in February 1944, detained at Camp 020 and executed. KV 2/54.
Cornelis Verloop
A Dutch private detective and Abwehr agent, he was arrested in October 1944 and detained at Camp 020. KV 2/139.
Hilaire Westerlinck
A Belgian ship’s doctor, code-named THE WEASEL by MI5, arrested upon arrival in England in May 1942 and incarcerated at Camp 020. His wife was jailed at Holloway. KV 2/2444.
Guy Wijckaert
A young Belgian refugee who declared some of his Abwehr connections to the Belgian consul in Barcelona; he was detained at Camp 020 in December 1943.
Wladyslaw Wilman
A young Polish Abwehr agent, he arrived as a refugee in Gibraltar in May 1944 and was detained at Camp 020. He was released in June 1944 to work in an aircraft factory, having missed the opportunity to become a double-agent.
APPENDIX 2
MI5 DOUBLE-AGENTS
ARTIST
Abwehr officer Johnny Jebsen, based in Lisbon and responsible for handling his old friend Dusan Popov, was abducted by the Gestapo in April 1944.
BASKET
Originally from Athlone, Joseph Lenihan surrendered to the police in Northern Ireland in July 1941. His Home Office file, HO 45/23803, is closed.
BEETLE
An Icelander, Petur Tomsen was landed by U-boat in September 1943. He died in 1988.
BRONX
Elvira Chaudoir, neé de la Fuentes, was the socialite daughter of a Peruvian diplomat in Vichy.
BRUTUS
Roman Garby-Czeriawski, a Polish army officer who supposedly escaped from German custody in Paris.
COLOMBINE
Waffen SS defector Obersturmführer Hans Walter Zech-Nenntwich.
DREADNOUGHT
Ivo Popov, brother of Dusan Popov, code-named TRICYCLE.
FATHER
A famous French pilot, Captain Pierre Arend, who arrived in England in June 1941.
FIDO
A French pilot, Roger Grosjean, who arrived in England in July 1943 from Lisbon.
FREAK
A Yugoslav aristocrat, the Marquis Fano de Bona, an old friend of Dusan Popov’s.
GARBO
The Spanish double-agent and master-spy Juan Pujol, who fabricated his reports to the Abwehr in Madrid for nine months while in Portugal, but operated from London from April 1942 until the end of the war. KV2/4213.
GELATINE
The Austrian Friedle Gaertner, whose sister, Lisel, was married to Ian Menzies.
HAMLET
Dr Johann Koessler, a Jewish businessman, former Austrian cavalry officer and double-agent recruited in 1941 in Lisbon by MULLET. He ran an imaginary network in England consisting of PUPPET and some notional agents until 1944, and died in Brussels in March 1947. KV2/325.
HARLEQUIN
An Abwehr defector, Richard Wurmann was captured in North Africa and brought to London in January 1943.
JEFF
The Norwegian agent Tor Glad who arrived in Scotland with MUTT in April 1941.
JOSEF
A Russian seaman, Powitzkow, active between August 1942 and December 1944 against the Japanese in Lisbon. KV2/2272.
LIPSTICK
The Catalan activist Josef Terradelas who arrived in London in November 1942.
METEOR
A Yugoslav pilot, Eugn Sostaric was recruited by his friend Dusa
n Popov.
MULLET
A British businessman, Ronald A. Thornton, based in Belgium and linked to HAMLET, who asked him to approach SIS on his behalf. KV2 326; KV 2/328.
MUTT
The Anglo–Norwegian John Moe was landed by a Luftwaffe seaplane off the coast of Scotland in April 1941 on a sabotage mission. Accompanied by JEFF, Moe immediately surrendered to the police and acted as a double-agent until 1944, when he joined the Norwegian Army.
PUPPET
Code name for Hans Fanto, linked to MULLET and HAMLET, who notionally sent him to England as his business agent. KV 2/327; KV2/329.
ROVER
A Polish naval officer who arrived in England in May 1944. His wireless transmitter remained active until the end of hostilities.
SNIPER
A Belgian pilot, Hans Bertrand, who reached England in November 1943.
TATE
The Danish parachute spy Wulf Schmidt, alias Harry Williamson, was arrested in Cambridgeshire in September 1940. He worked as a double-agent until the end of hostilities, and remained in England afterwards.