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Camp X was the unofficial name of the secret Special Training School No. 103, a Second World War British paramilitary installation for training covert agents in the methods required for success in clandestine operations. [1] It was located on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario between Whitby and Oshawa in Ontario, Canada.
Adjacent to the school was a large camp of US and Canadian troops preparing for D-Day, and as security around the camp was lax, there was unrestricted contact between the schoolboys and soldiers. Some of the soldiers' chatter, including D-Day codewords, may thus have been heard and learnt by some of the schoolboys.
Triple Cross is a 1966 Anglo-French Second World War spy film directed by Terence Young and produced by Jacques-Paul Bertrand. It was released in France in December 1966 as La Fantastique Histoire Vraie d'Eddie Chapman but elsewhere in Europe and the United States in 1967 as Terence Young's Triple Cross.
The “spy cops” were a top-secret subsection of London’s Metropolitan police force. The objective of the spy cop division was to join political advocacy organizations — nominally ...
Fifth Column was the name MI5, the British Security Service, gave to a World War II operation run from 1942 until at least 1947.It was initially intended to identify people who would be willing to assist Germany in the event of an invasion of the United Kingdom, but as it developed, it also acted to divert its targets away from harmful activities.
Errol Morris’ Documentary About British Spy and Author David Cornwell Sets Apple TV+ Premiere Errol Morris’s feature documentary “The Pigeon Tunnel” will make its global premiere on Apple ...
Harold Adrian Russell "Kim" Philby (1 January 1912 – 11 May 1988) [2] [3] was a British intelligence officer and a double agent for the Soviet Union.In 1963, he was revealed to be a member of the Cambridge Five, a spy ring that had divulged British secrets to the Soviets during World War II and in the early stages of the Cold War.
Edward Arnold Chapman (16 November 1914 – 11 December 1997) was an English criminal and wartime spy. During the Second World War he offered his services to Nazi Germany as a spy and subsequently became a British double agent. His British Secret Service handlers codenamed him Agent Zigzag in acknowledgement of his erratic personal history.