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Person.png Eric Maschwitz  Rdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png
(spook, entertainer)
Born10 June 1901
Died27 October 1969 (Age 68)

Eric Maschwitz was an officer of the Special Operations Executive during World War Two. Operating under the designation G.106, he ran Station M, which produced bogus documents which British Security Coordination used to attack its opponents and to further the interventionist cause in the Americas.[1]

Affiliations

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References

  1. Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception: British Covert Operations in the United States 1939-44, Brassey's, 1999, p.197.