Summary of Richard Kerbaj's The Secret History of the Five Eyes

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#1 Jessie Jordan, a German woman, was recruited by the Abwehr, the German intelligence arm, in February 1937. She had been abandoned by her father, William Ferguson, and had met a German waiter, Karl Friedrich Jordan, while working as a chambermaid in Dundee in 1907. They fell in love and married five years later. Jordan died on the Western Front in July 1918, leaving her and their four-year-old daughter to fend for themselves.

#2 A German woman named Jessie Jordan was recruited by the Abwehr, the German intelligence arm, in February 1937. She had been abandoned by her father, William Ferguson, and had met a German waiter, Karl Friedrich Jordan, while working as a chambermaid in Dundee in 1907. They fell in love and married five years later. Jordan died on the Western Front in 1918, leaving her and their four-year-old daughter to fend for themselves.

#3 A German woman named Jessie Jordan was recruited by the Abwehr, the German intelligence arm, in 1937. She had been abandoned by her father, William Ferguson, and had met a German waiter, Karl Friedrich Jordan, while working as a chambermaid in Dundee in 1907. They fell in love and married five years later. Jordan died on the Western Front in 1918, leaving her and their four-year-old daughter to fend for themselves.

#4 In 1937, a German woman named Jessie Jordan was recruited by the Abwehr, the German intelligence arm. She had been abandoned by her father, William Ferguson, and had met a German waiter, Karl Friedrich Jordan, while working as a chambermaid in Dundee in 1907. They fell in love and married five years later. Jordan died on the Western Front in 1918, leaving her and their four-year-old daughter to fend for themselves.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Sep 9, 2022
• ISBN: 9798350001747

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#1

Jessie Jordan, a British grandmother, was recruited by the Abwehr, the German intelligence arm, in February 1937. She had left Germany to escape her abusive husband, and had met a German waiter named Karl Friedrich Jordan. They fell in love and married five years later. Jordan died on the Western Front in 1918, leaving her and their four-year-old daughter to fend for themselves.

#2

Jessie’s willingness to become a spy was a complete identity makeover, as she had spent her life trying to be something she was not: a German. She was trained in how to collect basic information about British military facilities without arousing suspicion, and she was paid by the Abwehr for her efforts.

#3

Jessie took over the salon in 1937, seven months after her relocation to Scotland. She was obsessed with the military, and would travel to Hamburg to sketch and photograph defense force facilities. Her daughter, Marga, had divorced her first husband, a Jewish man, shortly after their daughter was born in 1934.

#4

In December 1937, Curran went through Jessie’s bag in the salon and found a map of Scotland and England marked up with military installations, including Fife Ness, a coast guard station, and Montrose, an army barracks. The map seemed too detailed and annotated to belong to a military hobbyist.

#5

MI5, the British security service, was created in 1909 to investigate German espionage. It was severely underfunded in the 1930s, with only 26 officers on its books.

#6

Liddell’s department, MI5, had been warning the government about the Nazi threat for years, but there was no political will to take an aggressive approach against it. Chamberlain was determined to avoid military confrontation with Hitler, until Britain finally declared war against the German Reich in September 1939.

#7

The British intelligence agency, MI5, was investigating Nazi spies, and they began monitoring Jessie’s mail. They discovered letters and packages addressed to her from a range of countries, including France, Holland, and South America. They believed she was a conduit for the German intelligence agency.

#8

Guenther Rumrich, a traveling soldier, was assigned to the army station hospital at Fort Clayton in the Panama Canal Zone in late 1929. He was promoted to the rank of sergeant shortly after his release from prison in 1930. He was determined to take his role as a serviceman more seriously.

#9

As a US citizen with a military background, Rumrich was a dream target for Abwehr recruiters eager to expand their espionage operations in America. He had married a girl from Montana in 1936, and was expecting his first child.

#10

Rumrich was a Nazi spy in America for almost two years, and he was arrested when he tried to obtain blank passports. His only crime was impersonating the US Secretary of State, Cordell Hull.

#11

The plot was revealed when Colonel Raymond E. Lee, the military attaché at the US