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Podcast: True Spies: Espionage | Investigation | Crime | Murder | Detective | Politics
Episode: MI9 Unmasked, Part 1: Escape and Evasion | WW2
Description: British historian Helen Fry joins Rhiannon Neads for the first installment of a two-part dive into one of the most crucial, but little-known intelligence forces of the Second World War - MI9.Charged with facilitating the escape of Allied POWs, MI9 employed various ingenious tactics - including, but not limited to, a chocolate gun. Yes, really. You'll meet the characters who made this organisation tick, from daring one-armed escapees to the inspiration for Ian Fleming's Q Branch.From SPYSCAPE, the HQ of secrets. A...