The head of MI6 will today mark the courage and diligence of a British spy who saved thousands of Jews from Nazi Germany. In a rare public acknowledgement of success in the shadows, the actions of Frank Foley will be celebrated at a reception with members of his family and the Holocaust Educational Trust at the MI6 headquarters in London. Officially Mr Foley, who retired to Worcestershire and died 60 years ago, was a passport control officer attached to the British Embassy in Berlin in the 1920s and 1930s. The mild-mannered bureaucrat was, however, really working for British Intelligence, a crucial post that he exploited to rescue Jews from the Nazis, issuing false papers, securing their release from internment camps and hiding fugitives in his…

Source: The Times January 30, 2018 00:11 UTC