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    Double Agent Celery: MI5's Crooked Hero
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    Double Agent Celery: MI5's Crooked Hero

    By Carolinda Witt

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    With Britain braced for a German invasion, MI5 recruited an ex RNAS officer, come confidence trickster, named Walter Dicketts as a double agent. 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. Once there, the Nazis spirited him off to Germany. 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.

    Despite discovering he had been betrayed as an MI5 plant before he even left for Germany, Celery somehow got back to Lisbon. After that he persuaded an Abwehr Officer to defect, and spent nine months undercover in Brazil.

    A mixture of hero and crook, Dicketts was worldly and intelligent, charming and charismatic. Sometimes rich and sometimes poor, his private life was a web of complexity and deception. Using family and official records, police records, newspaper articles and memories, the author unravels the tangled yet true story of Double Agent Celery.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPen and Sword
    Release dateOct 30, 2017
    ISBN9781526716163
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    Double Agent Celery: MI5's Crooked Hero
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    Carolinda Witt

    Carolinda Witt is an award-winning author who lives in Sydney. She keeps herself fit and healthy by practicing The Five Tibetan Rites, which she began in 2000. She has since taught the Rites to over 50,000 people all over the world through her books, online training course, DVD, and workshops - and attributes them to her youthful appearance and energetic outlook.Her prize-winning book, 'Double Agent Celery' recounts the incredible story of her spy grandfather, Walter Dicketts, who was sent into Nazi Germany by MI5 during WW2, to infiltrate the German Secret Service in the guise of a traitor and bring back crucial secrets. Interrogated, drugged, and plied with alcohol, Dicketts survived to tell the tale. It took Carolinda seven years to research and write this book and, in the process, united a family and rewrote history. Sadly, Carolinda's mother died without ever knowing his name.

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