A woman's attempt to visit family in the Balkans became a tool for the Security Service to burn German networks in Lisbon, a game kept secret for decades in the Personal Files.
By Harlan Pryce ·
A Russian-born businessman fooled the German military intelligence service from a base in Lisbon, running a network of non-existent spies that served a British agenda until his death in 1947.
By Constance Bell ·
Double agents operated under the nose of a dictator while British intelligence pressured Lisbon to purge Axis officers—a game of betrayal kept in the vaults of the Security Service.
By Vera Kessler ·
Axis intelligence officers operated within Portugal's colonies and capital while the British Secret Intelligence Service relied on double agents to track them.
By Constance Bell ·
Portuguese workers were targeted for manipulation by US funds kept secret from Congress, with the exact dollar amounts still blacked out in the record.
By Desmond Okafor ·
Double agents risked execution to map German networks in Lisbon while the British government pressured the Salazar regime to purge Axis operatives.
By Constance Bell ·
Double agents Tricycle and Artist fed reports to London while British officials pressured the Lisbon government to purge Axis officers from Portuguese colonies.
By Harlan Pryce ·
British spies lived under the shadow of the Gestapo while the Lisbon government managed Axis officers across its empire, secrets now preserved in UK National Archives records.
By Vera Kessler ·
Portuguese workers and political moderates became the targets of a program marked "Outside the System" to keep the nation from falling to radicals, with the cost still blacked out today.
By Harlan Pryce ·
British intelligence used double agents to deceive German intelligence in neutral Portugal, a gamble managed by the Security Service while Salazar's regime sheltered Axis officers.
By Vera Kessler ·