EPW031655 ENGLAND (1930). Central Circus, Hendon, from the south-west, 1930

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EPW031655
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EPW040431
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EPW040427
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EPW040429
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EPW040428
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Manylion

Pennawd [EPW031655] Central Circus, Hendon, from the south-west, 1930
Cyfeirnod EPW031655
Dyddiad April-1930
Dolen
Enw lle HENDON
Plwyf
Ardal
Gwlad ENGLAND
Dwyreiniad / Gogleddiad 522662, 188258
Hydred / Lledred -0.2295509941207, 51.579344796995
Cyfeirnod Grid Cenedlaethol TQ227883

Pinnau

MI5 safe house - 35, Crespigny Road, Hendon. From (about) May 1942 to after the end of the Second World War, this was the home of Juan Pujol Garcia, aka Agent Garbo (MI5), aka Agent Arabel (Abwehr, the Nazi foreign intelligence and espionage organisation) and his family. Juan Pujol Garcia, MBE and Iron Cross, was one of the key wartime agents involved in the Double Cross deception of Hitler and the German high command as to the place and timing of the invasion of France in 1944. See Double Cross, the true story of the D-Day spies by Ben Macintyre, published by Bloomsbury.

Kentishman
Friday 15th of July 2016 04:03:47 PM

Cyfraniadau Grŵp

35 Crespigny Road, Hendon was used by MI5 as a safe house for double agent Juan Pujol Garcia and his family. Agent Garbo, as he was named by MI5 was a crucial member of the group of double agents involved in Operation Fortitude, the fictitious invasion of France across the Straights of Dover to the Pas de Calais. This involved feeding false information to the Abwehr and from there to the German high command and Hitler; this was so successful that the Germans believed it would still happen months after D-Day and so kept many German divisions away from the battle in Normandy.

See Double Cross, the true story of the D-Day spies by Ben Macintyre, published by Bloomsbury.

Kentishman
Friday 15th of July 2016 03:24:24 PM