Read Hitler's Spy Online
Authors: James Hayward
17. In May 1940 Owens set out to meet Ritter on a Grimsby steam trawler, the SSBarbados. Snow’s MI5 file contains this image of a very similarvessel
18. Ritter flew out to the abortive North Sea rendezvous in a large Dornier 18 flying boat, which boasted a range of 2000 miles and an endurance of 12hours
19. Walter Dicketts (aka Celery) in a pre-war mugshot from thePolice Gazette
20. The Chain Home radar station at Poling near Arundel, typical of those positioned on the south coast of England
21. Abwehr transcripts of three controlled signals buzzed by Snow on 13 and 14 August 1940, two of which seek to deter invasion, and one providing ID serialsfor incoming German spies
22. Charles van der Kieboom, one of the hapless invasion spies captured in Kent on 3 September 1940
23. Kieboom’s wireless set revealed in thePicture Postfor 28 December 1940. Three weeks earlier, the unfortunate Eurasian spy had been hangedinexpertly at Pentonville
24. The Blitz on London eventually forced Snow to relocate from his second MI5 safehouse at 14 Marlborough Road in Richmond
25. Wulf Schmidt (aka Tate) and his suitcase transmitter. Codenamed Leonhardt by the Abwehr, and a favourite of Ritter, in 1941 he was awarded an unmerited IronCross
26. Spanish (not very) secret agent Piernavieja del Pozo, pictured in the Daily Express on 7 November 1940
27. The body of Jan Willem Ter Braak, as discovered in a Cambridge air raid shelter on April Fools’ Day 1941
28. Rudolf Hess with Messerschmitt 110 twin-engined fighter at Augsburg. On 10 May 1941 the Deputy Führer arrived in Scotland hoping to broker peace aheadof Operation Barbarossa, the German assault on Russia. Six weeks earlier Owens and Dicketts had returned from Lisbon with the very same mission