A file of correspondence and memoranda concerning a naturalisation application made by Otto John, a German who worked as an Allied agent during the Second World War. The documents discuss his war-time activities, including involvement in an attempted coup d’état against the Nazi regime, propaganda broadcasts, and the passing of military intelligence to the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6), and his post-war role interrogating German prisoners of war for the War Office.
- Collection ID
- FO1093
- Conflict
- Cold War
- Countries
- Spain
- Document Reference
- FO 1093/449/2
- Document Types
- Correspondence Memorandum
- File Reference
- FO 1093/449
- Identifier
- 10.1080/swwf.fo1093.0449.002
- Keywords
- Agents Interrogation Prisoners Of War Peace Proposals Coup D’état Anti-nazi Resistance Military Intelligence Intelligence Reports Propaganda
- Languages
- English
- Organizations
- Foreign Office Secret Intelligence Service Permanent Under-Secretary's Department
- Pages
- 17
- Persons Discussed
- Aubrey Halford William Hayter Adolf Hitler Peter Loxley Lawrence Pendred Orme Sargent
- Published in
- United Kingdom
- Themes
- Intelligence Organization Surveillance
