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Dai spy: Former police officer pretended to be fanatical Welsh nationalist to ...
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[Mirror.co.uk] - His escapades are detailed in a new book called Spying For Hitler by John Humphries, who said: “John Masterman, chairman of the Twenty Committee which ran the double-cross system, regarded Gwilym Williams as Britain's best agent.” Gwilym died aged
The Welsh policeman who helped Britain win World War Two
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[WalesOnline] - Mr Humphries said: “At one point, John Masterman, chairman of the Twenty Committee – it ran the double cross system after the roman numerals in the committee's title – regarded Gwilym Williams as Britain's best agent. “There is no doubt that Owen and
The Agents Who Fooled the Nazis About D-Day
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[New York Times] - Henry Morgan, even makes a case for why the double-agent business worked like a movie studio, whereas Mr. Macintyre picks up the cricket slang of John Masterman, the Oxford don who ran the Twenty Committee. (It was named for its Roman numeral
The Spy Game: Ben Macintyre Talks About 'Double Cross'
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[New York Times (blog)] - The broad outlines of the Double Cross deception have been known since 1972, when Sir John Masterman, the former chairman of the double agent committee, controversially published his account of the operation in defiance of official secrecy. A few of
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