THE MELIÁ WHITE HOUSE JOURNAL Nº009
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Did you know…?(Cont.
MAY 4, 2017
from Issue 008)
THE COMPLETE TOOL KIT USED BY THE PROFESSIONAL SPY WAS DISCOVERED A M15’s watch station was set up at The White House next to Lonsdale’s flat
Gordon
Lonsdale
had
suddenly disappeared from the Midland Bank in Great Portland St. Then, M15 agents, the UK’s intelligence and security agency, approached the Chairman of the bank and obtained permission to open Lonsdale’s safety deposit box. A few days later, the suitcase and package were removed from the bank and taken over the M15 Laboratory based at St. Paul’s. The contents were spread out on a table and carefully examined.
They had stumbled across the real thing: the complete tool kit of a professional spy They found specialist miniature cameras for document copying, and a book on how to learn typewriting, which was clearly connected with secret writing. One of the agents discovered that Lonsdale used the
pages of this book as a carbon copy for his invisible secret messages and it became an invaluable object to develop a research program into new methods of detecting secret writing. The most interesting object was a Ronson cigarette lighter. After x-raying it, they saw it contained several small items: two sets of miniature one-time code pads and a list of map references on a piece of paper, based on the London map book used by The Watchers. All these items were identified as a fullblown Soviet operation! Unfortunately, there were no specific plans about the frequency of Lonsdale’s broadcasts with Moscow, so M15 decided to set up a watching station next door to the flat he had in The White House.
Russian one-time Intelligence
pad
captured
by
British
On the left, a display of Soviet spy tools and on the right a portrait of Gordon Lonsdale
IN THE NEXT ISSUE… THE OUTCOME OF GORDON LONSDALE’STORY, WILL HE BE ABLE TO ESCAPE FROM M15’S VIGILANCE?
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