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William Ramsey Investigates

Spymaster: The Man Who Saved MI6 with Author Helen Fry. (2021)

William Ramsey Investigates

William Ramsey Investigates

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🗓️ 26 March 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Spymaster: The Man Who Saved MI6, the new book by Author Helen Fry. (2021)

 https://www.amazon.com/Spymaster-Man-Who-Saved-MI6/dp/0300255950/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=spymaster&qid=1638478309&sr=8-1

www.helen-fry.com

Twitter: @DrHelenFry

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0:00.0

Okay, we're live. Hi, this is William Ramsey. Welcome to William Ramsey Investigates. On today's show, I have a very special guest. Her name is Helen Fry. She comes to us from the UK, and she's just published a book. It was published last month in the UK, but here in the States, it was published November 30th, 2021. The title of the book is Spymaster, The Man Who Saved, MI6. It's really a fascinating book. I love reading books

0:22.4

about World War II, and this is really a fantastic edition. This is not the first book that Helen

0:27.5

Frye has written. She's written 25 books, and you can check out all of her books on her website,

0:33.7

www. Helen-Fri-F-R-ri.com. She has written extensively on the Second World War,

0:42.9

with particular reference to the 10,000 Germans and Austrians who fought for Britain,

0:48.0

and also intelligence and espionage. Helen's book, M-I-9, A History of the Secret Service

0:53.1

for Escape and Evasion in World War II, has been widely covered in the national press.

0:58.0

Her critically acclaimed book, The Walls Have Ears, The Greatest Intelligence Operation of World War II, was featured in the top eight books of the year by the Daily Mail in 2019.

1:08.0

She is the leading expert on the secret listeners at special eavesdropping sites

1:12.7

by British intelligence in World War II. She has been at the forefront of widespread coverage

1:18.2

and in-depth research of the greatest intelligence deception of the war, the bugging of Hitler's

1:23.8

generals at Trent Park, North London, as well as Latimer House and Wilton Park

1:28.3

in Buckingham, I'm sure. Helen is recognized as the official biographer of MI6 SpiMaster,

1:33.9

Colonel Thomas Joseph Kendrick, who we're going to talk about today. She appears frequently

1:38.3

in TV documentaries and broadcasts as well as appearing in live interviews on the BBC and BBC

1:42.7

World News, and she can be found on Twitter at Dr. Ellen Fry as well as appearing in live interviews on the BBC and BBC World News. And she can be found on Twitter at Dr. Ellen Fry as well as Instagram and Facebook.

1:49.6

She is an ambassador for the Museum of Military Intelligence,

1:52.9

an honorary member of the Association of Jewish Refugees,

1:56.5

and a trustee of the Medmanham Collection,

1:59.7

and president of the Friends of the National Archives.

2:01.8

So some of our other titles should have been very busy this year. One is Churchill's German

2:05.9

Army, the Germans who fought for Britain in World War II, which 2021 is also inside Nuremberg Prison,

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