Rough Justice
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Rough Justice

The True Story of Agent Dronkers, the Enemy Spy Captured by the British

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Rough Justice

The True Story of Agent Dronkers, the Enemy Spy Captured by the British

About this book

Early in the morning of 18 May 1942, three Dutchmen were captured in the North Sea and taken to MI5. It soon became clear that one in particular, Johannes Marinus Dronkers, was no mere refugee escaping the Nazi occupation. He had a hidden agenda: to betray secrets about the state of Britain's war preparedness to the German Abwehr. It was to be an intriguing episode in the cat-and-mouse game played between German and British intelligence. But was Dronkers guilty, or was he made an example of by the British authorities, his fate pre-determined by the climate of war-torn Britain? And why wasn't he turned, as MI5 had done and would do to many other enemy spies? The Dronkers case raises important questions about the process of dealing with wartime spies and the punishments meted out by British authorities. Using newly available official files and other sources, this book examines the details of Dronker's recruitment, capture and interrogation by MI5, as well as his trial at the Old Bailey. David Tremain compares the Dronkers case with that of other wartime spies, reveals the Abwehr's lost recipe for secret ink, and exposes exactly what made a Dutchman escape to England in 1942 betray his country. This unsettling story has remained a little-known episode of the Second World War until now.

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Information

Publisher
Amberley Publishing
Year
2016
eBook ISBN
9781445661599
Edition
0
Topic
History
Subtopic
World War II
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Acknowledgements
  3. Author’s Note
  4. List of Abbreviations
  5. Foreword by Nigel West
  6. Preface
  7. Prologue
  8. Chapter 1: By Interceptions Which They Know Not Of
  9. Chapter 2: Treachery, the Practice of Fools
  10. Chapter 3: Double Cross
  11. Chapter 4: A Most Unlikely Enemy Agent
  12. Chapter 5: Mission Impossible
  13. Chapter 6: Escape
  14. Chapter 7: The Radio Oranje Episode
  15. Chapter 8: Who Was ‘Doctor Schneider’?
  16. Chapter 9: ‘Playing With the Souls of Innocent Men’
  17. Chapter 10: Mulder’s Story
  18. Chapter 11: Mulder’s Later Activities
  19. Chapter 12: The Further Adventures of Mulder
  20. Chapter 13: The Case of Mulder and de Langen
  21. Chapter 14: Mulder’s Future
  22. Chapter 15: ‘As Sordid a Tale as Any We Have Had’
  23. Chapter 16: The Trial, Day One
  24. Chapter 17: The Trial, Day Two
  25. Chapter 18: The Trial, Day Three
  26. Chapter 19: The End of the Affair?
  27. Chapter 20: Judgement Day
  28. Chapter 21: The Death of a Spy
  29. Chapter 22: Fall-out and the Media
  30. Chapter 23: ‘The Kent Spies’, 1940
  31. Chapter 24: ‘The Kent Spies’ on Trial
  32. Chapter 25: The Self-Confessed Agent
  33. Chapter 26: Three Men in a Boat
  34. Chapter 27: ‘The Greatest Living Expert on Security’
  35. Postscript
  36. Appendix 1: Directory of Key Personnel Mentioned in Official Documents
  37. Appendix 2: The Role of the Intelligence Services
  38. Appendix 3: Dronkers’ Instructions on How to Use Secret Ink
  39. Appendix 4: Abwehr Structure: Ast Hamburg Spring 1939
  40. Appendix 5: German Ranks Mentioned in the Text
  41. Appendix 6: Definitions of a Spy
  42. Appendix 7: Inventory from Joppe and Dronkers’ Personal Possessions
  43. Appendix 8: Mulder’s Organisation
  44. Appendix 9: Intelligence Obtained from Mulder
  45. Appendix 10: Genealogies of Seignette and Dronkers Families
  46. Bibliography
  47. Notes