Secret files name man who spied on Nazis as Alexis Bellegarde,Russian émigré linked to the infamous Zinoviev letterDocuments from a secret Swedish archive own identified “Outcast”, the double agent judged by MI6 as “one of the most successful spies against Germany that the 1939-45 war produced”, or as a White Russian émigré previously involved in the most notorious smear in British political history.
The documents reveal him as Alexis Bellegarde,one of four White Russian aristocrats believed to own been behind an infamous forgery 15 years before the war began. The revelations of Bellegarde’s importance to MI6 will increase suspicions that British agents had a hand in the production of the Zinoviev letter”; its leak to the Daily Mail many believe cost Labour the 1924 general election.
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Source: theguardian.com