nsamrs.blogg.se - Double Agent Celery by Carolinda Witt

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As he was unable to regain a commission in the RAF or work for British Intelligence due to his criminal past, Dicketts volunteered to work for the British Double Cross team. Before his 2 years as a double agent, he was an RNAS officer who had worked in Air Intelligence during the latter part of World War I and had served several prison sentences for fraud.

Walter Arthur Charles Dicketts (31 March 1900 – 16 August 1957) was a British double agent who was sent by MI5 into Nazi Germany in early 1941 to infiltrate the Abwehr and bring back information about any impending invasion of Britain.

Using family and official records, police records, newspaper articles and memories, the author unravels the tangled yet true story of Double Agent Celery. Sometimes rich and sometimes poor, his private life was a web of complexity and deception. A mixture of hero and crook, Dicketts was worldly and intelligent, charming and charismatic. After that he persuaded an Abwehr Officer to defect, and spent nine months undercover in Brazil. Despite discovering he had been betrayed as an MI5 plant before he even left for Germany, Celery somehow got back to Lisbon. With his life on the line, Dicketts had to outwit his interrogators in Hamburg and Berlin before returning to Britain as, in the Nazis eyes, a German spy. Once there, the Nazis spirited him off to Germany. Codenamed Celery, Dicketts was sent to Lisbon with the seemingly impossible mission of persuading the Germans he was a traitor and then extract crucial secrets.

With Britain braced for a German invasion, MI5 recruited an ex RNAS officer, come confidence trickster, called Walter Dicketts as a double agent. Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (page 235-259) and index.