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Accessions administration: KV 2
Catalogue reference: PRO 57/15934
Date: 2000 Jan 1 - 2003 Dec 31
Accessions administration: KV 2
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Gisela ASHLEY: German, British. ASHLEY, a German citizen who married and later divorced...
Catalogue reference: KV 2/4658
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This record is about the Gisela ASHLEY: German, British. ASHLEY, a German citizen who married and later divorced... dating from 1934 May 14 - 1939 Oct 21 in the series The Security Service: Personal (PF Series) Files. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- KV 2/4658
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1934 May 14 - 1939 Oct 21
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Description (What the record is about)
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Gisela ASHLEY: German, British. ASHLEY, a German citizen who married and later divorced an Englishman, moved to London in the early 1930s where she co-wrote a number of West End plays. She was recruited as an MI5 agent and deployed to the Netherlands and Belgium in the late 1930s to gather intelligence on Nazi activity there. A possible compromise of her identity ended her operational career. Under the new name Susan BARTON, she joined MI5's wartime Double Cross section, B1a, assisting agents such as TRICYCLE and ZIGZAG where her German background and language were great assets. With photograph
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
- PF 47151 VOL 1
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- Public Record(s)
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- Open on Transfer
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- Open Document, Open Description
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C19404894/
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KV 2
The Security Service: Personal (PF Series) Files
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