Mysterious Aviatrix remembered the “Most Interesting” Robin W.G. Stephens

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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A Potential Break in Robin W.G. Stephens Research

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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The FBI’s Search for the Fiancée of German spy Karel Richter

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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Tangential Research Lead on R.W.G. Stephens via T.A. Robertson

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

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A Photograph of Robin W.G. Stephens from BBC’s Timewatch series (1999)

While revamping the formatting on some of my older blogs, I came across this reference to the BBC Timewatch series on The Spies Who Fooled Hitler. The show had some fascinating interviews with former secretaries and interrogators from MI5’s secret interrogation centre, Camp 020 (a.k.a. Ham or Latchmere House). I wrote a blog about some

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The Story of Cyril Egerton Dixon – Steel Manufacturer, MI5 Officer and Civil Servant

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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John Cudworth Whitebrook – An Admirable Defence Counsel

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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