Agent Jack

by Robert Hutton

  here space to intern only 18,000: Gillman (1980).

  here ‘Farce’: KV 4/185.

  here ‘Large numbers of enemy aliens’: KV 4/185.

  here ‘every person within the fortress’: Gillman (1980).

  here ‘The paltriest kitchen maid’: FO 371 25189.

  here One of those men was Eric Roberts: The Red Book: Membership list of Captain Ramsay’s Right Club (1939).

  here ‘Anderson began by saying’: KV 4/186.

  here ‘Collar the lot’: Gillman (1980).

  here By July, 753 BUF members: Andrew (2009).

  here ‘Why this policy was never carried out’: KV 4/186.

  here ‘Unden Order’: KV 4/186.

  here ‘appear to have prepared a kind of Black List’: KV 4/186.

  here ‘Dealt with letter from lady’: KV 4/186.

  here ‘Ostensibly these are said to be let out’: KV 6/50.

  here ‘too far-fetched even for Hitler’: CAB 120/468.

  here ‘the police have found pieces’: HW 15/43/59.

  here ‘I do not think there is a case’: KV 2/680.

  here ‘After their trial, Miss X’: Andrew (2009).

  here ‘down at Windsor’: KV 4/187.

  here ‘I appreciate it may be thought’: KV 2/680.

  here ‘the more disreputable riff-raff’: KV 2/680.

  here Wormwood Scrubs . . . was hit: Andrew (2009).

  here ‘Wasn’t it marvellous?’: KV 2/899.

  here The supposed German agent: KV 2/898 and Hemming (2017).

  here ‘He told me all about the Briscoe case’: KV 4/187.

  here Nathaniel Mayer Victor Rothschild: Hannah Rothschild, The Baroness (2012).

  here When Victor was born: H. Rothschild (2012).

  here She was also considered quite daring: H. Rothschild (2012).

  here a servant was told to walk backwards: H. Rothschild (2012).

  here ‘simultaneously spoilt and regimented’: Victor Rothschild, Meditations of a Broomstick (1977).

  here Victor’s earliest memory: V. Rothschild (1977).

  here Cambridge-to-London record: Kenneth Rose, Elusive Rothschild (2001).

  here ‘I don’t like failing at jobs I do’: BBC, ‘The Politics of Thinking’ (1984).

  here an invitation to the White House: Rose (2001).

  here Sir Harold Hartley: E. J. Bowen, rev. K. D. Watson, ‘Hartley, Sir Harold Brewer (1878–1972)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004).

  here Hartley recognised that Rothschild’s mind: Rose (2001).

  here ‘I never thought he cared’: Alan Hodgkin, Chance and Design (1994).

  here Queen Victoria expressly rejected: Rose (2001).

  here ‘If I ever have a son’: Miriam Rothschild, Dear Lord Rothschild (1983).

  here Jewish jokes had disappeared: George Orwell, ‘Antisemitism in Britain’, Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters, Vol. III (1968).

  here ‘I am Lord Rothschild’: Rose (2001).

  here the Waterloo story was a lie: Brian Cathcart, The News From Waterloo (2015).

  here ‘He is quite ruthless’: KV 4/186.

  here ‘I am surprised that somebody’: KV4 186.

  here ‘He thought that we should first try’: KV 4/186.

  here ‘The only problem with this story’: Brian Garfield, The Meinertzhagen Mystery (2007).

  here ‘banned from the British Museum’: Garfield (2007).

  here ‘When one takes a bomb … to pieces’: BBC Desert Island Discs interview 7 July 1984.

  here The first bomb Rothschild tackled: Rose (2001).

  here ‘It was difficult to get hold of’: Victor Rothschild, Random Variables (1984).

  here ‘obvious pleasure’: V. Rothschild, Meditations of a Broomstick (1977).

  here ‘intricate surgical operation’: V. Rothschild, Meditations of a Broomstick (1977).

  here ‘although professedly an English firm’: KV2 3313.

  here ‘obtained direct or indirect access’: KV2 3313.

  here ‘all German subjects’: Hansjürgen Koehler, Inside the Gestapo (1940).

  here Encouraged by her husband: STV News, ‘WWII Spycatchers Revealed After 70 years’ (2009).

  here Liddell passed this information: FBI, ‘Spies Caught, Spies Lost, Lessons Learned’ (2007), and Peter Duffy, Double Agent (2014).

  here ‘In every armament factory in America’: Duffy (2014).

  here ‘The accused showed’: KV 2/3313.

  here In 1939, it had 26,000 employees abroad: Wilfried Feldenkirchen, Siemens 1918–1945 (1999).

  here ‘far from pro-Nazi’: KV 2/3313.

  here a nest of spies: KV 2/2782.

  here ‘funds beyond his salary’: KV 2/2782.

  here ‘outspokenly anti-British’: KV 2/3313.

  here ‘but the rubber factory’: Koehler (1940).

  here ‘An organisation like Siemens’: KV 2/3800.

  here ‘grossly inaccurate’: Roberts family archive.

  here In 1900, at the start of a new century: Carl’s story, and Walter and Dorothy’s, are in KV 2/540.

  here A month after Britain declared war: Gillman (1980).

  here Along with 25,000 other civilians: Dr Oliver Wilkinson, ‘Review of Prisoners of Britain: German Civilian and Combatant Internees During the First World War’, Reviews in History (2013).

  here ‘circular arguments’: Gillman (1980).

  here ‘People were still walking around’: This and subsequent quotes from the letters are from KV 2/540.

  here The Home Office Warrant system: Andrew (2009), and Calder Walton, Empire of Secrets (2013).

  here ‘The reasons that persons join correspondence clubs’: KV 2/3800.

  here ‘would be keeping extremely quiet’: KV 2/3800.

  here ‘a series of boys’: Goronwy Rees, ‘A Chapter of Accidents’, cited in Rose (2001).

  here ‘How easily in these darkened streets’: Rose (2001).

  here ‘In the part of London where I work’: This and subsequent quotes from the letters are from KV 2/3800.

  here ‘alarm and despondency’: Leo McKinstry, Operation Sealion (2014).

  here ‘pots of jam, syrup, etc’: KV 4/123.

  here The first to arrive: McKinstry (2014).

  here ‘They were singularly badly directed’: KV 4/186.

  here ‘a poor fish’: KV 4/187.

  here ‘Strong has a great regard’: KV 4/186.

  here ‘I began by explaining’: KV 4/188.

  here ‘Good evening, John’: HO 45/22382.

  here He fought desperately: KV 4/188.

  here ‘mighty risks’: KV 2/945.

  here ‘Churchill and his rotten gang’: KV 2/3319.

  here ‘A chap like me’: KV 2/3319.

  here ‘Civilians and military personal’: KV 2/3319.

  here At various points during the war: Nigel West and Oleg Tsarev, Triplex: Secrets from the Cambridge Spies (2009).

  here ‘Jock had a habit’: KV 4/191.

  here ‘I cannot afford to take any risks’: KV 2/3321.

  here A passing policeman: J. C. Masterman, The Double Cross System (1995).

  here ‘some searching questions’: KV 4/188.

  here Carl Brahe: Christened Frederick Charles, but known as Carl to his family.

  here ‘We didn’t think the British public’: KV 2/3874.

  here ‘attractive appearance’: KV 2/2677.

  here ‘composed solely of women’: KV 2/2677.

  here ‘said to have committed himself’: KV 2/3800.

  here ‘A woman of this type’: KV 2/3800.

  here ‘At a convenient moment’: KV 4/189.

  here ‘It seems that certain of them already know’: KV 4/189.

  here ‘some innocuous object like the Union Jack’: KV 2/3800.

  here ‘the fools entrusted with the formation’: KV 2/540.

  here ‘Swiss Bank Corporation’: KV 4/189.

  here ‘German Secret Service’:
KV 2/3800.

  here The line between observer and provocateur: KV 4/188.

  here ‘took exception to the agent provocateur’: KV 4/188.

  here ‘Intelligence matters were usually of such complexity’: KV 4/472 4/3/1950.

  here ‘the PM might speak to the Home Secretary’: KV 4/191 16 March 1943.

  here ‘was exactly the technique’: KV 2/3800.

  here ‘the organisation has certain somewhat melodramatic ideas’: KV 2/3800.

  here ‘Gleave would, in time of invasion’: KV 2/2677.

  here ‘a sexual pervert’: KV 2/793.

  here ‘go there and scrub the floors’: KV 2/3874 and KV 2/3799.

  here the craft had wing floats: KV 2/3799.

  here ‘willing to hide German agents’: KV 2/3799.

  here ‘Marita explained’: KV 2/3800.

  here In the US, the FBI: Peter Duffy, Double Agent (2014).

  here ‘Look at Marita’: This and subsequent quotes are from KV 2/3874.

  here ‘She feels secure’: KV 2/3800.

  here ‘It has been found impossible’: KV 2/3800.

  here ‘No official or other single individual’: KV 4/227 Maxwell Knight, ‘History of the operations of MS during the war 1939–45’.

  here ‘I still pin my faith’: Roberts family archive.

  here ‘remains violently anti-Semitic’: KV 2/2677.

  here ‘There are few, if any’: KV 2/3800.

  here ‘all, without exception, listen in’: KV 2/2677.

  here ‘The papers that day’: Sunday Express 30/8/42.

  here ‘The Daily Mirror carried a light story’: Daily Mirror 29/8/42.

  here ‘We have been having a long discussion’: KV 2/3873.

  here ‘I hear you are more or less’: KV 2/3874.

  here ‘a Jewish war of revenge’: Richard Griffiths, Patriotism Perverted (1998).

  here ‘Britain may look a little shop-worn’: US War Department, Instructions for American Servicemen in Britain (1942).

  here ‘The whole of the Rothschild family’: BBC Desert Island Discs interview (1984).

  here The leading initial critic: KV 4/190.

  here Time and again: KV 2/3800.

  here ‘We certainly do not’: KV 2/3799.

  here ‘I have rarely heard’: KV 6/119.

  here ‘experiments were going on’: KV 2/3800.

  here ‘the whole question in its proper perspective’: KV 4/190.

  here ‘We must I think’: This and subsequent quotes from the diary are from KV 4/190.

  here ‘would be willing to do anything’: KV 6/118.

  here ‘very high up and drawing a huge salary’: Garfield (2007).

  here There had been one, Jane Archer: Andrew (2009).

  here ‘a matter of expediency’: KV 6/118.

  here ‘a washout’: KV 2/3874.

  here As raids over Germany increased: http://www.rafinfo.org.uk/bcww2losses/.

  here ‘the man who broke the bloody beam’: R. V. Jones, Most Secret War (1978).

  here ‘I told Kohout that he was not to consider’: KV 2/3873.

  here ‘Kohout has hit upon something’: Jones (1978).

  here ‘Roberts gave his reply: “Yes”’: KV 4/190.

  here ‘Robbie, you have the art’: Roberts family archive.

  here ‘necessary or desirable’: KV 4/191.

  here He proposed blackmailing the organisation: KV 2/3873. The file doesn’t specify the exact nature of Bernard’s blackmail demand, but it is clear that he had threatened exposure of the Fifth Column.

  here ‘showed an excellent capacity’: KV 2/3873.

  here ‘She keeps on telling me how funny it is’: KV 2/3874.

  here ‘They were watching the RAF’: KV 2/3874.

  here ‘I looked in vain’: KV 2/3873.

  here ‘It was a very successful raid’: KV 2/3874.

  here ‘very simple advice’: and following quotes are from KV 2/2487.

  here ‘She swore that Britain would get it back’: and following quotes are from KV 2/2487.

  here ‘is now working wholeheartedly’: KV 2/3800.

  here ‘Herzig looks honest and decent’: KV 2/3800.

  here ‘she’s very keen’: KV 2/3874.

  here ‘more or less backed out’: KV 2/3800.

  here ‘dirty traitor’: KV 2/3874 p. 349.

  here ‘Marita remarked that she sometimes wondered’: KV 2/3873.

  here ‘I’m compelled to be quite frank’: KV 2/3874.

  here ‘Kohout proudly produced a revolver’: KV 2/3800.

  here ‘anything for a litre of wine’: (Macintyre).

  here ‘She really ought to be locked up’: KV 4/191.

  here Men had been forced out of work: Andrew Martin Mitchell, ‘Fascism in East Anglia’ (1999).

  here ‘I could see our privileges’: Mitchell (1999).

  here ‘The fascist idea’: (Mitchell).

  here Creasy persuaded Mosley: Stephen Dorril, Blackshirt (2006).

  here A local journalist wrote confidentially: KV 2/4021.

  here Hitler was ‘a good man’: KV 2/4021.

  here ‘The happiness, the contentment’: Mitchell (1999).

  here ‘National Socialist atmosphere’: KV 2/4021.

  here Perigoe mentioned the Creasys: KV 2/4021.

  here ‘pretty immoral’: KV 2/4022.

  here ‘I fear that this report does not’: KV 2/4022.

  here Kohout visited the Creasys again: KV 2/4022.

  here ‘HIS MAJESTY WLADYSLAW THE FIFTH’: KV2/4022.

  here she’d been ‘rather silly’: KV 2/4022.

  here ‘It should be considered’: KV 2/4022.

  here ‘I call upon God’: Peter Stubley, Calendar of Crime (2014).

  here In 1941, the US Army Air Force: Juliet Gardiner, Wartime (2004).

  here viewed as ‘dangerous people’: KV 2/4022.

  here ‘The recent Allied successes’: and following quotes are from KV 2/3800.

  here ‘Careless Talk Costs Lives’: KV 2/3874.

  here In May 1943, Sir David Petrie: KV 2/3873.

  here ‘exact experimental results’: KV 2/3873.

  here ‘whose genius at this type of work’: KV 2/3800.

  here ‘there is nothing to which exception’: KV 4/192.

  here ‘On a Tuesday evening’: KV 4/193.

  here ‘We do not consider that Jack’: KV 2/3800.

  here ‘proved to be an egg shell of a man’: Roberts family archive.

  here ‘When looking at the devastation’: KV 2/3800.

  here Hilda Leech meanwhile: KV 6/119.

  here ‘Some Austrian woman’: KV 4/193.

  here ‘Sokl said that whatever the outcome’: KV 2/3800.

  here That left one bomb unaccounted for: KV 4/193.

  here ‘It is a crate in three compartments’: V. Rothschild, Meditations of a Broomstick (1977).

  here a ‘nursing home’ for ‘miserable seamen’: Rothschild letter to Duff Cooper, quoted in Rose (2001).

  here ‘At one moment it looked’: KV 4/193.

  here The pair had to be eased apart: Rose (2001).

  here ‘is almost always interpreted’: Rothschild letter to Duff Cooper, quoted in Rose (2001).

  here ‘She had heard from a friend’: KV 2/3801.

  here ‘whatever political opinions were held’: KV 2/3801.

  here ‘We spend most of our time’: Rothschild letter to Duff Cooper, quoted in Rose (2001).

  here ‘headquarters which are in the country’: KV 4/195.

  here ‘It looks a little’: KV 4/195 Dec. 20, 1944.

  here On 15 April 1945: Alexander van Straubenzee, ‘The Gate of Hell’, Daily Telegraph (2005).

  here In the following month: US Holocaust Museum.

  here ‘This may be rather difficult’: KV 4/466.

  here ‘On the face of it, Kohout’s tentative proposals’: KV 6/118.

  here ‘A prosecution is out of the question’: KV 2/3800.<
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  here ‘staggering tour de force’: KV 2/3800.

  here ‘It must be clearly understood’: KV 4/227.

  here ‘directly or indirectly in contact’: Curry (1999).

  here ‘destroy or replace by scrambled extracts’: KV 6/67.

  here ‘There is no doubt’: KV 4/190.

  here By 1949, when he spoke to Roberts: KV 4/471.

  here At that stage the inquiry: Tom Bower, The Perfect English Spy (1995).

  here ‘devastating’: V. Rothschild, Random Variables (1984).

  here ‘I lost confidence’: BBC, ‘The Politics of Thinking’ (1984).

  here ‘part charlatan, part fantasist’: Letter to the author.

  here ‘lots of men in brown felt hats’: Hemming (2017).

  here It gained brief notoriety: Rob Baker, Beautiful Idiots and Brilliant Lunatics (2015).

  Also by Robert Hutton

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  Would They Lie to You?

  How to Spin Friends and Manipulate People

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