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Tyler Gatewood Kent joined the American Foreign Service in March 1934. Read the first page
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This takes the lid off MI5!,
This review is from: State Secrets: The Kent-Wolkoff Affair (Paperback)
It has been said that most books on Espionage are rubbish and in 'State Secrets: The Kent-Wolkoff Affair' the author proves the point conclusively by critically examining many post-war accounts of the events that led to the secret trials of Tyler Kent and Anna Wolkoff in 1940, the outcome of which was that they were sentenced to 7 and 10 years respectively.Kent was a cipher clerk at the American Embassy in London and Wolkoff was a Russian-born dress designer whose father had been an Admiral in the Russian Imperial Navy. Following the Bolshevik Revolution, the Admiral had been reduced to running a small café near the South Kensington Underground Station. Kent was introduced to Anna Wolkoff in February 1940 and showed her copies of telegrams that Winston Churchill had been exchanging with President Roosevelt through the American Embassy. Anna then shared these with Captain Maule Ramsay, the Conservative MP for Peebles, who intended showing them to Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain. Ramsay was arrested and interned until September 1944. Had the Churchill-Roosevelt exchanges become public, they would probably have changed the course of WWII but, using recently released MI5 files, Bryan Clough shows convincingly that MI5 rose to the challenge by mounting a sting operation against Anna Wolkoff. This is a brilliant expose in which Clough fully documents his findings and it is a must for everyone interested in Espionage and Political Propaganda.
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An Intriguing Detective Mystery,
This review is from: State Secrets: The Kent-Wolkoff Affair (Paperback)
Sixty-five years ago, MI5 banged up Tyler Kent (an American diplomat), Captain Ramsay (a Conservative MP) and Anna Wolkoff (a Russian-born dress designer), all of who lived in London. Captain Ramsay, the MP for Peebles, was interned without trial; the others were tried in secret and sentenced to 7 and 10 years penal servitude.
After the war, colourful cover stories were circulated that indicated that they had all been Nazi spies. They had indeed been sympathisers and supporters of Prime Minister Chamberlain’s appeasement policy, which was the official line at the time. Things changed when Winston Churchill stepped up as Prime Minister on 10 May 1940 and MI5 moved into action a few days later.
The truth has been hidden away in the MI5 archives until recently and the author has done a cracking job of piecing together the various strands of evidence that he has unearthed so that even the most sceptical reader will be convinced that, at last, the final words have now been written on an intriguing detective mystery. Highly recommended!
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This review is from: State Secrets: The Kent-Wolkoff Affair (Paperback)
A fascinating and thought provoking book, very relevant in these times when the leaders of America and Britain have been caught engineering events and manipulating public opinion to suit their own agendas.As can be expected of Clough, he has meticulously researched the source material to unravel one of the most puzzling real spy stories of World War II. Why was a lowly cipher clerk in the American embassy and a naïve Russian émigré granddaughter of a personal aide-de-camp to the Emperor Nicholas II tried separately and in secret and found guilty of crimes against the British state? What was the significance of the timing of their detainment and trials shortly before the round up and internment of suspected Fifth Columnists, the re-election of a President, the replacement of America’s Ambassador, Churchill’s appointment as Prime Minister and the entry of America on the Allies side in the war? The game is played out by an intriguing cast of characters such as the charismatic head of Section B5b of MI5 and his troupe of female undercover agents, a compliant judge, a Member of Parliament and a full cast of the Establishment rallying under the banner of Sir Oswald Mosley’s Fascist party. What was the bizarre connection between the Right Club with their clandestine meetings in such unlikely places as the Russian Tea Rooms in South Kensington and the infamous traitor Lord Haw-Haw? Has Clough written the final chapter to this complex story that governments have sought to keep such a tight lid on? Perhaps this is the definitive account of a story that has attracted authors and journalists on both sides of the Atlantic. A “must-read” for those intrigued by the relationship between governments, intelligence agencies and the judiciary where there are no limits to the unscrupulous actions that men of influence will go to deceive as they have effected world events in recent history.
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