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The MI5 view of Josef Jakobs

They gave him his cover name and knew he was about to arrive

Aug 15, 2021
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Josef Jakobs after arrest.

Nigel West, the pen name of Rupert Allason, has become well known as the semi-official historian of MI5, the British Security Service which runs counter espionage operations. His ‘MI5: British Security Service Operations, 1909–1945: The True Story of the Most Secret counter-espionage Organisation in the World’ published in 201…

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