Maverick spy : Stalin's super-agent in World War II

MacGibbon, Hamish2017

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James MacGibbon worked for the Intelligence Corps in the British War Office and then in Washington, D.C. During that time he spied for the Soviet Union, providing the Russians with top secret information of immense diplomatic and military value. At the end of the war MI5 suspected him of espionage and interrogated him but he did not confess. Nevertheless they kept James, his wife Jean and their young family under close surveillance for a number of years, regularly intercepting their mail and recording their telephone conversations. Only after James's death did the true significance of what he might have revealed become clear - in his wartime office role, James had access to the plans for Operation Overlord, D-Day. In this book, James's son Hamish tells the story of his parents, their interaction with the Communist Party and their with wartime treachery.