Marriage, It's All About Trust... Supposedly!

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This one intrigues me and it shows that you don't really know who's laid in bed next to you.

Widow discovers late husband of 64 years was Brit spy trained to infiltrate prisons.

A widow discovered secret papers that revealed her late husband had led a double life as a British spy.

'Audrey Phillips, 85, was married to Glyn for 64 years and knew him as a family man and civil engineer who loved to play football.
Not until after his death in 2015 aged 83 did she become aware he had been working for British Intelligence –since he was 13.
Glyn was pulled out of school in 1944 because he had a photographic memory and began to work for Operation XX, part of MI5.



Glyn’s papers revealed as a lad he was trained to crawl through concrete pipes into prisons to talk to German POWs, then crawl
back out. Audrey, of Trowbridge, Wilts, said: “It took me three years after he died to read the papers and I was absolutely astonished.”
The documents showed Glyn was recruited by a captain from British Intelligence.

Even after the war finished, Glyn still completed secret missions and the captain continued to appear throughout his adult life.
Audrey has now published Glyn’s life story in a book, titled Operation XX And Me: Did I Have A Choice?
She added: “I was completely oblivious. I have so many questions now that will probably never get answered.
I wish I could ask him: ‘Why didn’t I know?’”...'

SOURCE:
Why would a British 'spy'-boy be required to speak to German prisoners of war held in British prisons during a war against Germany?


Apparently, The Daily Mail Can explain...

The spy who loved me: Widow, 85, discovers her husband led a double-life as a secret agent
for 70 years after finding paperwork showing he infiltrated the Nazis for MI5.

'...The operation, otherwise known as the Double-Cross System, was a counter-espionage and deception project
which saw Nazi agents captured in Britain being used to send misinformation back to Germany...'

'The Double-Cross system, or Operation XX, was a counter-espionage programme
carried out in WWII by the British Secret Service.

When Nazi agents were captured in Britain, they were used by the British to reveal
secrets and broadcast false information back to Germany.
 In 1940, the Abwehr (German secret service) started sending spies into Britain.

When the German Enigma machine was cracked, MI5 could easily pick up the agents
landing on British shores. Once caught, the agents were interrogated then either imprisoned
and killed or invited to become double agents.

Genuine information was sent back to Germany as well as fake information in order to keep
up their pretence.The XX Committee came to be known as the 20 and started running around
50 enemy agents.'

MailOnline:

Fully explained?! Even if any of this is true, what I find sad is that this guy was allegedly paid twenty pounds
for a task -which equated to two weeks wages back then as a civil engineer or 'calf-dozer' for a trench digging
company. £20 back in early forties.

In 2019, the book is on sale at Amazon for £6.99!