A couple of months ago, I wrote a post about Ursula Eileen Lloyd, an aviatrix who encountered Robin W.G. Stephens in Addis Ababa during the mid-1930s. Ursula was a bit of a character, to say the least, and I admit to being sucked down the rabbit hole with her story! While writing the original post, […]
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A few months ago, I received a follow-up email from Dutchman Ivar B. who has been digging away at accessing files on Harm Knol Bruins and his second wife, Anna Lilian von Vaupel-Klein. But before we get to that… a recap. As some readers might remember, I did a post on Bruins about three years
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And…. I’m back! Sorry for the long radio silence on this blog. Life got a bit hectic and writing seems to be the first thing to go. I’ve also been waiting on a few books/documents which seem to be taking forever to arrive. I’ll just blame it on Covid and supply-chain issues! I’m still chipping
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Last week, I received a fascinating comment from Giles, a follower of this blog, who is as intrigued by Robin William George Stephens as I am. Giles had come across a Sydney Sun (New South Wales) newspaper article from 1938 which featured the recollections of an aviatrix who had met Stephens in Addis Ababa (Abyssinia)
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Well, that was fun. For the last 9-10 months, I’ve been working through the published blog posts bringing their formatting into line with the WordPress. In the process, I checked external and internal links and I think everything is now working… or I hope so. If anyone finds any hiccups, please use the contact form
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A few months ago, I published a blog about the hunt for Karel Richter’s fiancée, Gertrude Wegmann. Without much success. I dissected the information to be gleaned on Gertrude, her illegitimate child with Karel Richter, and her New York address. None of those leads produced anything. Dead Ends? I was unable to find a child
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For a while now, I’ve been thinking that I should (a) write a review of Gentleman Spymaster, Geoffrey Elliott’s book about T.A. Robertson and (b) reach out to Mr. Elliott to see if he has contact info for Robertson’s daughter, in the hope that she might have some snippet of information from her father’s files
Tangential Research Lead on R.W.G. Stephens via T.A. Robertson Read More »
Several years ago, I wrote a blog post about Cyril Egerton Dixon, the Regional Security Liaison Officer for Cambridge during the Second World War. Cyril, or Cecil in some records, was also known as Dick or Dickie, possibly a play off of his surname. He was most definitely not a Richard, as several documents with
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In last week’s blog post, I delved into the legal arguments used by Werner Walti’s defence counsel, John Cudworth Whitebrook, after the civil trial. I admit to being impressed with Whitebrook’s attempts and wanted to know more about this man who came up with such creative arguments. He didn’t lead an ordinary life… that’s for
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While researching my book on Josef Jakobs, I necessarily delved into the files of the other LENA spies who were charged under the Treachery Act of 1940. The vast majority of spies who were brought to trial were convicted and executed by hanging. As I read the files, I became intrigued by the tactics used
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