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Erna Maria WESTCOTT, aliases Ines WESTCOTT, Erna Maria UMLAUF, Erna Maria BESUCH....
Catalogue reference: KV 2/3761
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This record is about the Erna Maria WESTCOTT, aliases Ines WESTCOTT, Erna Maria UMLAUF, Erna Maria BESUCH.... dating from 1936 Jun 09 - 1941 Aug 07 in the series The Security Service: Personal (PF Series) Files. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- KV 2/3761
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- 1936 Jun 09 - 1941 Aug 07
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Erna Maria WESTCOTT, aliases Ines WESTCOTT, Erna Maria UMLAUF, Erna Maria BESUCH. German by birth, WESTCOTT married a Brussels based British businessman in the late 1930s and spent the war years in France, Portugal and UK. She was detained on arrival in UK in 1942 on account of her German origins and sympathies and suspected Intelligence links. Described variously as volcanic, unreliable and uncooperative, doubts about her case were sufficient to ensure her detention in Holloway and the Isle of Man until 1945
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- PF 783229 VOL 1.
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- Retained Until 2014
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- Open Document, Open Description
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