![]() ![]() AUTHOR: Carolinda Witt is the granddaughter of MI5's double agent celery aka Walter Dicketts. Using family and official records, police records, newspaper articles and memories, the author unravels the tangled yet true story of Double Agent Celery. Sometimes rich and sometimes poor, his private life was a web of complexity and deception. A mixture of hero and crook, Dicketts was worldly and intelligent, charming and charismatic. After that he persuaded an Abwehr Officer to defect, and spent nine months undercover in Brazil. ![]() Despite discovering he had been betrayed as an MI5 plant before he even left for Germany, Celery somehow got back to Lisbon. With his life on the line, Dicketts had to outwit his interrogators in Hamburg and Berlin before returning to Britain as, in the Nazis eyes, a German spy. Once there, the Nazis spirited him off to Germany. ![]() Codenamed Celery, Dicketts was sent to Lisbon with the seemingly impossible mission of persuading the Germans he was a traitor and then extract crucial secrets. With Britain braced for a German invasion, MI5 recruited an ex RNAS officer, come confidence trickster, called Walter Dicketts as a double agent. Print Double Agent Celery MI5's Crooked Hero ![]()
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