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Selected Historical Papers from the PEASANT case. PEASANT, a Dutchman, was an adventurer...
Catalogue reference: KV 2/467
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This record is about the Selected Historical Papers from the PEASANT case. PEASANT, a Dutchman, was an adventurer... dating from 1938 Aug 11-1945 Aug 11 in the series The Security Service: Personal (PF Series) Files. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- KV 2/467
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1938 Aug 11-1945 Aug 11
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Description (What the record is about)
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Selected Historical Papers from the PEASANT case. PEASANT, a Dutchman, was an adventurer who after much travel was recruited by the Abwehr in Holland in Summer 1942 to spy in Latin America. Trained in secret writing and W/T he was sent by the Abwehr to Lisbon in May 1943, en route for the USA. His codename was LUTINE. He promptly contacted the Dutch authorities and SIS. Brought to England to enable the FBI to examine his suitability as a double agent, PEASANT was rejected as too unreliable to go to the U.S., but his notional presence there was used by the FBI to mount a deception operation against the Abwehr.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Physical Description: with examples of microflm and secret writing
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- PF 65926
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- Public Record(s)
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- Open Document, Open Description
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The Security Service: Personal (PF Series) Files
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Selected Historical Papers from the PEASANT case. PEASANT, a Dutchman, was an adventurer...
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