During the Second World War, MI5 created a fake ‘fifth column’ of British national socialists – a counterpart to the far better known ‘double cross’ operations that were designed to deceive German intelligence.
In this podcast I discuss how Victor Rothschild led a top secret MI5 operation that included spying on one of Britain’s most senior diplomats. Targets of Rothschild’s undercover operation also included leading Mosleyites, one of whom – Suffolk landowner Ronald Creasy – I met several times towards the end of his long life.
Did a senior Foreign Office mandarin describe Jews as “the enemies of all that is decent”? And did MI5 cross the line from security and intelligence gathering into acting as agents provocateurs? Watch this podcast to find out.
