Spy Cities: The Hague and Venlo

THE HAGUE & VENLO: BRITAIN’S GREATEST INTELLIGENCE DISASTER?

The 1939 Venlo Incident - the Gestapo’s kidnapping of two British MI6 officers on the Dutch–German border - remains one of the Allies’ greatest intelligence disasters of the Second World War. The German Englandspiel radio deception, run out of The Hague, only deepened the catastrophe. Join us as we investigate the background, and explore some intriguing locations pointed out by our contacts in Dutch intelligence…

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