Britain’s Failed WW2 Spies

Not everyone passes a training course, but what do you do when the training was for being a spy, and you now knew too much to be returned to a normal life? According to a new book, “British Intelligence: Secrets, Spies and Sources” by Stephen Twigge, Edward Hampshire and Graham Macklin, this was a problem faced by Britain during the Second World War. For whatever reason, there were spies who found themselves knowing too much to be left free to roam during the war, but who able to go on active service (some had suffered psychiatric breakdowns). One answer was to be found at the eighteenth century Inverlair Lodge, nicknamed 'Number 6 Special Workshop School' in Scotland, which was commandeered and used to house the spies in comfort until the war had ended.