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Stories with possible local or international interest

Local British and Irish

London and the South East:

Communist Party security manager Betty Reid; composer Hanns Eisler; Reverend Michael Scott; Communist MP for Mile End Philip Piratin

North West England:

Account of life as an internee in the Huyton Camp, 1940, by Otto Lehmann-Russbueldt

Scotland:

Nationalist poet Hugh MacDiarmid; Norwegian agent for the Germans Nicolay Hansen, landed by parachute at Fraserburgh

Wales:

American writer Ernestine Evans

 

International

Austria:

Composer Hanns Eisler

France:

Second World War German, Spanish, Italian and Japanese intelligence networks in France, and their links with French organisations, including the police; the Rote Kapelle Soviet spy network in France; inept German naval intelligence agent Henry Addicks

Germany:

Second World War German propaganda material; inept German naval intelligence agent Henry Addicks; Security Service plans for action against members of German organisations in Britain prior to the Second World War; German camouflage for sabotage equipment

Ireland:

Liaison between British and Irish counter-espionage agencies and the establishment of such agencies in Ireland; Irish volunteer in the SS Frank Stringer

Italy:

Security Service plans for action against members of Italian organisations in Britain prior to the Second World War

Luxembourg:

Ralph Powell, renegade broadcaster at Radio Luxembourg

Malawi:

Intercepted communications of Dr Hastings Banda

Norway:

German agent Nicolay Hansen

Latin America:

Double agent BRONX, Elvira Chaudoir

Portugal:

German agent in Portugal before and during the Second World War, Kuno Weltzein; Abwehr organisation in Portugal.

Russia:

First head of the Soviet State Bank Aaron Scheinman

South Africa/Namibia:

Inept German naval intelligence agent Henry Addicks; activities of Reverend Michael Scott

Turkey:

German intelligence network featuring Walter Hintz in Istanbul

United States of America:

Writer Ernestine Evans; composer Hanns Eisler