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Fritz Joubert DUQUESNE: South African/American. He was arrested in New York in 1918...
Catalogue reference: KV 2/1956
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This record is about the Fritz Joubert DUQUESNE: South African/American. He was arrested in New York in 1918... dating from 1941 Jan 01 - 1945 Dec 31 in the series The Security Service: Personal (PF Series) Files. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- KV 2/1956
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1941 Jan 01 - 1945 Dec 31
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Fritz Joubert DUQUESNE: South African/American. He was arrested in New York in 1918 masquerading as an Australian whose identity, it was reported, had been arranged for him by German intelligence. Subsequent reports suggested that he had been involved in a series of acts of sabotage against British shipping in South American waters during the war. In 1941 DUQUESNE, by now a leading member of an Abwehr network in the USA, was arrested there on espionage charges and later sentenced to 20 years' imprisonment
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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- PF 655191 VOL 4
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- Public Record(s)
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- Retained Until 2005
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- Open Document, Open Description
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C11249236/
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The Security Service: Personal (PF Series) Files
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