The sympathizers’ hatred for Britain, driven by anti-Semitism and the propaganda of Mosley’s group, was so strong that they “applauded” women and children being killed by German bombs, reports from Bingham show.Ĭontinuing the operation after the war proved impracticable and the “SR” investigation was closed down in 1949. One sympathizer, Hilda Leech, passed on reports about secret research to develop a jet aircraft while Edgar Whitehead, an astrologer, gave details about secret trials on a new amphibious tank. He exploited the group’s taste for the cloak-and-dagger aspect of espionage work, offering to supply them with invisible ink for secret communications and meeting them in the basement of an antique shop. Bingham convinced her that he was a representative of the Gestapo looking for people who could be relied on to help in the event of an invasion. “She was found to be so violently anti-British and so anxious to do anything in her power to help the enemy that it was felt that special attention should be paid to her,” MI5 reported. Said to be of mixed Swedish and German origin, she was married to a member of Mosley’s British Union of Fascists, but saw them as “insufficiently extreme.” She was found to be so violently anti-British and so anxious to do anything in her power to help the enemy that it was felt that special attention should be paid to her Initially the plan had been to penetrate Siemens Schuckert (GB) Ltd, the British arm of the German industrial company that was suspected of espionage, until Bingham met a “crafty and dangerous woman” called Marita Perigoe.

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