The MI5 view of Josef Jakobs

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

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…