![]() In certain cases, this has not been possible. Every attempt has been made to seek and obtain permission for copyright material used in this book. Quotes from Hansard contain Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0. ![]() AcknowledgementsĪll files in the National Archives are © Crown Copyright and are reproduced with permission under the terms of the Open Government Licence. Codenames or aliases are prefixed using the symbol Stella’s codename was MICHAEL. Unless MI6 is specifically used in a quote or a bibliographic reference, the term ‘SIS’ will be used in this book. Likewise, the terms ‘MI6’ and ‘SIS’ are frequently used interchangeably to mean the British Secret Intelligence Service. In this context it is generally meant as a generic name for the German Secret Service rather than Schutzstaffel, the Nazi Party’s paramilitary organization, or the Sicherheitsdienst (SD), the Nazi Party’s intelligence service. In these files many MI5 documents use the term ‘German S.S’. When quoting from these files some minor formatting changes have occasionally been made to ensure the text flows better, and accents added to French and German words where they were missed out in the original text because the typewriters of the time lacked those keys otherwise, no changes have been made to the original punctuation or spelling. Unless otherwise specified in the notes, all quotes and extracts have been taken from files at the National Archives at Kew (TNA). Pen & Sword Books Limited incorporates the imprints of Atlas, Archaeology, Aviation, Discovery, Family History, Fiction, History, Maritime, Military, Military Classics, Politics, Select, Transport, True Crime, Air World, Frontline Publishing, Leo Cooper, Remember When, Seaforth Publishing, The Praetorian Press, Wharncliffe Local History, Wharncliffe Transport, Wharncliffe True Crime and White Owl.įor a complete list of Pen & Sword titles please contactĤ7 Church Street, Barnsley, South Yorkshire, S70 2AS, Englandġ950 Lawrence Rd, Havertown, PA 19083, USAĬhapter 1 The Beginnings of a Covert LifeĬhapter 11 Telegrams and Telephone ChecksĬhapter 17 ‘A Person of Hostile Associations’Ĭhapter 18 ‘Well, There is Only One Lie …’Ĭhapter 20 ‘A Very Cheap Specimen of a Human Being’Ĭhapter 21 The ‘Pot Calling the Kettle Black’Ĭhapter 24 ‘If I Had Been a Nasty Piece of Work …’Ĭhapter 25 ‘A Fog of Falsehood and Misrepresentation’Ĭhapter 26 The Advisory Committee’s ReportĬhapter 27 ‘The Woman Who Laughs Like a Horse’Ĭhapter 28 Stella’s Statement to the AbwehrĪppendix I: Mrs Lonsdale’s Secret Ink & CodeĪppendix III: Notes for Purposes of Investigation in France No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical including photocopying, recording or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission from the Publisher in writing. The right of David Tremain to be identified as Author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.Ī CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.Īll rights reserved. To my sister, Anne Thompson, who has been my lifeline when times got toughįirst published in Great Britain in 2021 by Read moreĪgent Provocateur for Hitler or Churchill? This book will explore the role this strange woman may or may not have played in working for British Intelligence, the French Deuxième Bureau, or the Abwehr – German military intelligence – during the Second World War, using her MI5 files as a primary source. She doesn’t even merit a mention in the two official histories of MI5, even though she managed to tie them up in knots for years. ![]() Until now, very little has been recorded about Stella Lonsdale’s life. The descriptions variously ascribed to her ranged from ‘remarkable’ and ‘quite ravishing’ to ‘…a woman whose loose living would make her an object of shame on any farm-yard’. After the war she became romantically involved with a well-known British Fascist, but finally married another notorious criminal whom she had met earlier during the war. One whose dubious claim to have worked for them is a fascinating tale involving three marriages – the first, to a spurious White Russian prince the second to a playboy-turned-criminal involved in a major jewellery robbery in the heart of London’s Mayfair in the late 1930s. There have been many remarkable women who served British Intelligence during the Second World War.
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