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Robey LIEBRANDT: South African. LIEBRANDT was a South African policeman and international...
Catalogue reference: KV 2/924
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This record is about the Robey LIEBRANDT: South African. LIEBRANDT was a South African policeman and international... dating from 1941 Oct 18-1942 Jan 23 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)
- 1941 Oct 18-1942 Jan 23
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Robey LIEBRANDT: South African. LIEBRANDT was a South African policeman and international boxer before falling under the Nazi spell at the 1936 Olympics and moving to Germany to take up a physical culture scholarship at the State Academy in Berlin. There he was recruited as a sabotage agent and in 1941 landed in South Africa from a rubber boat with bomb-making equipment, a radio transmitter and 10,000 US dollars. The task given him was to form an organisation of disaffected Afrikaaners with the aim of overthrowing the government. He was caught after a number of small acts of sabotage, tried on charges of treason and sentenced to death, later commuted to life imprisonment
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- PF63905 VOL 1
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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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