Amazing history Len. It is only now that I am learning a little about the traitors that Britain had within during WWII. I recently enjoyed a BBC recreation of the words of RAAF pilots. It was four hours+ of pleasure and respect.

@FrayedBear
It is not actually that surprising, Oswald Mosley the leader of The British Union of Fascists held the famous Olympia Rally in 1934 attracted a minimum of three quarter of million Black Shirt supporters (they only counted the men), there was a British legion of the SS made up of British army deserters and before it could be brought under control the British National socialist had to be made an illegal organisation and Moseley himself was exiled to France to avoid arrest.
There were various attempts to bring him back to the UK and restart the party, ending only with Moseley's death in 1980.
The myth that Britain was immune from the wave of fascist populism that swept Europe in the 1920s and 30s was pure propaganda (unfortunately) and it took huge amounts of counter propaganda to hide that embarrassing fact that the (abdicated) King George VI was himself a liar, traitor and card carrying National socialist as where his sister in law (Elizabeth the queen mother) and most of her family extended family the Bowes-Lions.
In that respect the fact that Wallace Simpson was divorced and Catholic was a "god send" in getting George removed without having to point out she the duchess of Windsor was a high ranking Nazi spy.

I loved some of the stories written by English gentlemen some with with German surnames holidaying in Europe and making notes of German, Italian, Turkish fortifications prior to WWI. Talk about Walter Mittys.

No THEY have sneaky underhand spying bastards, WE have patriotic brave and heroic intelligence agents

@LenHazell53 LMAO

@LenHazell53 LMAO

Still relevant or not?

Did the CIA pay you when you were running your Spanish newspapers?

@FrayedBear It's relevant in that even more info about the matter has recently come to light.

@FrayedBear No. The mean bastards refused!

@Petter so why post to downplay the significance & reality particularly if the"mean bastards" refused you their munificence?

@FrayedBear I was merely pointing out that it is old news. I knew about it from way back.
In a similar vein, the British never admitted they had invented the world's first fully programmable electronic computers and code breaking algorithms because they were reading other nations' secret messages. The Bletchley Park machines were discreetly transferred to the premises of what became GCHQ.