1939 ⟶ Venlo Incident: British Intelligence Officers Abducted
In the Venlo incident, British Secret Intelligence Service o...
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1939
🕵️ Venlo Incident: British Intelligence Officers Abducted
In the Venlo incident, British Secret Intelligence Service officers Sigismund Payne Best and Richard Henry Stevens fall victims to a false flag operation: at Venlo in neutral Netherlands, they are abducted by a group of German Sicherheitsdienst officers and brought to Germany.⟶
espionagefalse flagintelligenceNetherlandsGermanyabductionsecret servicepolitical intriguepre-war tensions