1939 ⟶ Intelligence Report on German Weapons Reaches Whitehall
Hans Mayer sends anonymously his report to the British Embas...
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1939
✉️ Intelligence Report on German Weapons Reaches Whitehall
Hans Mayer sends anonymously his report to the British Embassy in Norway; from there it was sent for evaluation to Whitehall, where it attracted the attention of Reginald Victor Jones, Assistant Director of Intelligence to the Air Ministry, despite the skepticism of many who suspected it being a German plant.⟶
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🕵️ German Spy Offers Intelligence to Britain
Hans Mayer sends an anonymous letter to the British Naval attaché in Oslo, Captain Hector Boyer, asking if the British wants information from Germany on present and future German weapons. If the answer is positive he requires that confirmation be given by a small change of the German version of the BBC World Service, which is done.⟶
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