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Marie Anne Teresa de Styczinska BRETT PERRING: British/French (of Polish origin)....
Catalogue reference: KV 2/1097
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This record is about the Marie Anne Teresa de Styczinska BRETT PERRING: British/French (of Polish origin).... dating from 1943 Jan 12-1948 Sep 03 in the series The Security Service: Personal (PF Series) Files. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- KV 2/1097
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1943 Jan 12-1948 Sep 03
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Marie Anne Teresa de Styczinska BRETT PERRING: British/French (of Polish origin). Mrs PERRING's espionage career began in the First World War when she was in touch with French, British, German, and (later) Russian intelligence personnel. The British decided that she was not to be trusted and was probably an 'agent provocateur'. She settled in Britain in the 1930's and in 1939 she claimed to have sent flowers to Hitler. The same year she was found to be selling information to the Japanese Naval Attache and reporting to the British Union of Fascists. During the Second World War she offered her services unsuccessfully to a number of Allied intelligence organisations. However, she also supplied information to the International News Service (part of the Randolph Hearst group) some of it to the detriment of the Allied cause. In 1942 she was prosecuted for possessing information useful to an enemy and sentenced to three months' imprisonment, after which she was detained until 1944
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- PF12296 VOL 7
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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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The Security Service: Personal (PF Series) Files
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