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Catalogue description Franz VON PAPEN: German. VON PAPEN, as Military Attache in the German Embassy in...
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| Reference: | KV 2/519 |
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| Description: |
Franz VON PAPEN: German. VON PAPEN, as Military Attache in the German Embassy in Washington during the First World War, ran what was described as a small army of spies inside and outside the USA. In 1915 the US authorities declared him persona non grata.The file contains evidence of his spying from that period, including part of his correspondence seized at Nazareth in 1917 when General Allenby captured the Turkish H.Q. in which he had been working as an Intelligence staff officer. VON PAPEN was later to become the German Chancellor who ''sold the Reich'' to Hitler |
| Note: | Physical Description: with an original letter from VON PAPEN in New York dated January 3rd 1914 written in the form of an intelligence report |
| Date: | 1914 Dec 07-1916 Feb 08 |
| Held by: | The National Archives, Kew |
| Former reference in its original department: | PF2928 VOL 1 |
| Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
| Language: | English |
| Physical description: | file(s) |
| Closure status: | Open Document, Open Description |
| Access conditions: | Open on Transfer |
| Record opening date: | 30 October 2001 |
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