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Franz VON PAPEN: German. VON PAPEN, as Military Attache in the German Embassy in...
Catalogue reference: KV 2/519
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This record is about the Franz VON PAPEN: German. VON PAPEN, as Military Attache in the German Embassy in... dating from 1914 Dec 07-1916 Feb 08 in the series The Security Service: Personal (PF Series) Files. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1914 Dec 07-1916 Feb 08
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Franz VON PAPEN: German. VON PAPEN, as Military Attache in the German Embassy in Washington during the First World War, ran what was described as a small army of spies inside and outside the USA. In 1915 the US authorities declared him persona non grata.The file contains evidence of his spying from that period, including part of his correspondence seized at Nazareth in 1917 when General Allenby captured the Turkish H.Q. in which he had been working as an Intelligence staff officer. VON PAPEN was later to become the German Chancellor who ''sold the Reich'' to Hitler
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- PF2928 VOL 1
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- English
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- Open Document, Open Description
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