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Joseph Andre Romain GOBIN, alias MADY: Belgian. GOBIN Mathilde, alias KAUSSEN: German,...
Catalogue reference: KV 2/311
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This record is about the Joseph Andre Romain GOBIN, alias MADY: Belgian. GOBIN Mathilde, alias KAUSSEN: German,... dating from 1944 Nov 03-1945 Mar 08 in the series The Security Service: Personal (PF Series) Files. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- 1944 Nov 03-1945 Mar 08
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Joseph Andre Romain GOBIN, alias MADY: Belgian. GOBIN Mathilde, alias KAUSSEN: German, Belgian by marriage. He was a W/T agent of the German Intelligence Service , recruited by Joseph KOECHZING in about August 1944, who operated in Belgium until his arrest by the Allies in October 1944. He claimed to have only operated as a stay-behind W/T agent and, despite a formal process of training, to have had no active operational role in 1940-43. After some initial resistance he and his wife admitted his agent role and gave a detailed, but not necessarily absolutely accurate, account of the process of recruitment, training, handling and operational work.
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- PF 600489
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