Sweepstakes worker tried to sell MI5 a US agent list
MARK HENNESSY London Editor

A FORMER Hospitals Sweepstakes employee offered to sell the organisation’s highly secret list of ticket sellers in the US to British intelligence in the early months of the second World War, newly released files in London reveal.

John Gerard Andrews, who lived at the time in Seafield Road in Clontarf, made his first approach to a HM Customs and Excise official, H Kimber, in 1939, who passed the information on to MI6.

The list of 12,000 names, Mr Andrews said in a letter to Mr Kimber, was wanted by German agents in Dublin, who saw possibilities that it could form the backbone of a Fifth Column in the US.  See article at link below

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