![]() ![]() The address was still being used in the 1960s to recruit university students as informants and potential agents. 'Room 055 was the secret address of M.I.5. ![]() The 1945 letter was sent from 'Room 055', War office, Whitehall. Secret correspondence from M.I.5 was often headed with a crown and /or only 'Box 500'. 'Box 500' was a 'lace curtain' alias of M.I.5, (Military Intelligence, Section 5), the United Kingdom's domestic counter-intelligence and security agency alongside the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6). The 1943 letter was sent from 'Box 500', Nottingham. X received were from a Major Gerald Glover, one in November 1943 and another in 1945. Finally however, through the intervention of an army friend of his, he was eventually taken seriously, and a correspondence between himself and the 'powers that be' started to take place. However, he became frustrated by the lack of response to what he considered to be his very serious & real fears. He eventually wrote to M.I.5., The Under Secretary of State and The War Office about his fears. He examined the strips in minute detail comparing each and every line against those to be found in Pitman's shorthand or in the symbols used by the Air Ministry etc. X thought that somebody was concealing secret information within the text and imagery used in the cartoon strips. X became obsessed with the idea that comic strips appearing in the daily newspapers, particularly "Just Jake" & "Buck Ryan" of the Daily Mail", were being used to pass on secret information to Britain's enemies. He was also a member of Nottingham's Home Guard Battalion ~ Rocket A. X lived in Nottingham and worked for a radio company there. X, although his full name and address, and that of the company he worked for are to be found amongst the material. X' of Nottingham Includes material relating to the Special Operations Executive, Agent FiFi, MI5 & the War Office. Item: 264375199516 WWII SOE SECRET DOCUMENTS~FIFI/AGENT PROVOCATEUR~MI5~ESPIONAGE/SPIES~NOTTINGHAM. Seller: welsh-bridge-books-and-collectables ✉️ (6.200) 100%, ![]()
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