The Independent - London, April 27th, 2000
Haw-Haw tip-off Sir: You report that, according to a newly released MI5 file, a security service officer was accused of tipping off William Joyce ("Lord Haw-Haw") regarding his impending arrest in 1939, enabling him to flee to Germany ("British intelligence let Lord Haw-Haw escape", 20 April). This story actually first came to light in J A Cole's 1964 biography of Joyce. The alleged MI5 tipster was, it appears, none other than Maxwell Knight, a senior officer of the security service who was in charge of running undercover agents among Britain's fascists and communists. The first identificat...
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