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COLD WAR COUNTERFEIT SPIES
Tales of Espionage:
Genuine or Bogus?

This edition published in 2016 by Frontline Books,
an imprint of Pen & Sword Books Ltd,
47 Church Street, Barnsley, S. Yorkshire, S70 2AS

Copyright Nigel West

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Abbreviations

ACC	Assistant Chief Constable
AFSA	Armed Forces Security Agency
ASIO	Australian Security Intelligence Organization
AVH	Hungarian intelligence service
AVO	Hungarian Security Service
BND	Federal German Intelligence Service
BOSS	South African Bureau of State Security
BVA	Spanish Basque Battalion
CIA	Central Intelligence Agency
DCI	Director of Central Intelligence
DEA	Drug Enforcement Administration
EOKA	Greek Cypriot Separatist Movement
ETA	Basque Separatist Movement
FBI	Federal Bureau of investigation
FFI	French Forces of the Interior
FRU	Force Research Unit
GAL	Spanish Anti-Terrorist Group
GRU	Soviet Military Intelligence Service
HVA	East German Foreign intelligence service
INLA	Irish National Liberation Army
IRA	Irish Republican Army
KPD	German Communist Party
KGB	Soviet Intelligence Service
MEW	Ministry of Economic Warfare
MGB	Soviet intelligence service
MI5	British Security Service
MI6	British Secret Intelligence Service
MRF	Mobile Reconnaissance Force
NCB	Nuclear, Chemical, Biological
NKVD	Soviet intelligence service
NSA	National Security Agency
OPC	Office of Policy Coordination
OSS	Office of Strategic Services
PFLP-GC	Patriotic Front for the Liberation of Palestine General Command
PIRA	Provisional wing of the Irish Republican Army
PRO	Public Record Office
ROTC	Reserve Officer Training Cadet
RUC	Royal Ulster Constabulary
SAS	Special Air Service Regiment
SB	Polish Intelligence Service
SIS	British Secret Intelligence Service
SOE	Special Operations Executive
SVR	Russian Foreign Intelligence Service
UB	Polish Secret Police
UDR	Ulster Defence Regiment
UVF	Ulster Volunteer Force
WIN	Polish Freedom and Independence Movement

Introduction

I n 1998, Counterfeit Spies investigated two dozen books that purported to be non-fiction accounts of clandestine missions undertaken by secret agents during the Second World War. Some were obscure, such as John Cottell, who claimed to have been awarded numerous decorations for gallantry that mysteriously had not been recorded in any official archive, while others like the Countess of Romanones (The Spy Wore Red) appeared remarkably unembarrassed to be exposed as a fraud. A few, such as Lady Clarke (Elizabeth Denham, the pseudonymous author of

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