MI9: The Secret Service for Escape and Evasion

Dan Snow's History Hit

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🗓️ 3 October 2020

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Helen Fry joined me on the podcast to talk about the thrilling history of MI9. The WWII organisation engineered the escape of Allied forces from behind enemy lines.

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0:00.0	Hello everybody, welcome to Dan Snow's History Hit.
0:02.5	Very happy to have Helen Fry back on the podcast.
0:04.8	She has spent years in the National Archives here in the UK
0:08.7	looking into overlooked histories of the Second World War.
0:12.3	She's now written a history of MI9.
0:14.9	It's a secret department of the British government.
0:17.0	They were the secret service for escape and evasion.
0:20.2	They helped prisoners of war escape from German prisoners of war camp
0:24.2	in the Second World War.
0:25.8	She'd been on the podcast before.
0:27.0	She talked about the fantastic country house
0:29.2	in which German generals were kept prisoner.
0:32.7	After they'd surrendered to the British,
0:34.0	they were given lots of drink.
0:35.4	They were entertained by what appeared to be a British aristocrat
0:38.7	with fascist leanings, not either conjure them up.
0:41.2	And they had a rather nice time, except all their conversations
0:43.4	were being recorded, and it led to serious breakthroughs
0:46.1	in the intelligence war.
0:47.7	So Helen's previous book, The Walls Have Is,
0:49.7	are fantastic. This one, the MI9 equally good.
0:51.9	If you wish to listen to the back episode of this podcast,
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