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Helge John Neal MOE, alias"MUTT" (known as John MOE): British. MOE, of mixed British...
Catalogue reference: KV 2/1067
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This record is about the Helge John Neal MOE, alias"MUTT" (known as John MOE): British. MOE, of mixed British... dating from 1941 Apr 07-1947 Nov 20 in the series The Security Service: Personal (PF Series) Files. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- KV 2/1067
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1941 Apr 07-1947 Nov 20
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Helge John Neal MOE, alias"MUTT" (known as John MOE): British. MOE, of mixed British and Norwegian parentage, was a friend of Tor GLAD (codenamed"JEFF") in Oslo and through him made contact with the Abwehr as a means of working against the Nazis. Recruited and trained as spies and sabotage agents, both were sent to Britain arriving on the Aberdeenshire coast by rubber boat in April 1941. Their first action was to contact police and to give themselves up, together with their equipment. They were quickly turned by MI5 into double agents. MOE was given the codename MUTT and worked with much success over a four year period, providing the Allies with an important deception channel as well as being a source of counter espionage information of value to British Intelligence. The file contains graphic accounts of operations involving German parachute drops to their 'agent' and of simulated acts of sabotage against 'targets' in the Home Counties
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- With two photographs of MOE and GLAD and three photographs of MOE together with various of MOE's identity documents
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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- PF55864
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- Public Record(s)
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- Retained Until 2002
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- Open Document, Open Description
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C11090165/
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The Security Service: Personal (PF Series) Files
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