A short file of documents arranging for the arrest of an enemy agent named Jan Alexander. The documents describe Alexander’s role as a Frenchman working for a Czech intelligence agency based in Lisbon who had been recruited by the German intelligence services, and was operating as a double agent. The documents go on to cover arrangements for his arrest at sea on board a neutral ship, after his treachery had been detected in intercepted communications.
- Collection ID
- FO1093
- Conflict
- Second World War
- Countries
- Bermuda England Portugal United States of America
- Document Reference
- FO 1093/257/2
- Document Types
- Report Correspondence
- File Reference
- FO 1093/257
- Identifier
- 10.1080/swwf.fo1093.0257.002
- Keywords
- Espionage Non-british Agents Recruitment Of Agents Treachery Double Agents Shipping Counter-espionage Communications Interception German Intelligence Services
- Languages
- English
- Organizations
- Foreign Office Permanent Under-Secretary's Department Ministry of Economic Warfare Security Service
- Pages
- 12
- Persons Discussed
- Peter Loxley David Petrie Edmund Rushbrooke
- Published in
- United Kingdom
- Themes
- Intelligence Operations
