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| This MI5 advice on spy-spotting, which was given to the Home Guard, is among previously classified documents which have been released by the Public Records Office. Strange clothes and foreign chocolate were seen as tell-tale signs that someone was a German spy in Britain during World War II. Another giveaway sign that a German had parachuted into Britain was that the spy would probably be under 35 - "landing from a parachute is a young man's job". The infiltrator may have been slightly injured, so the Home Guard were told to watch out for scratches and limping. A German probably would not have known where he was, so questions such as "Where are you?", "Where are you going to?", and "Where do you come from?" were suggested by MI5. The spy would almost certainly be wearing civilian clothes, said MI5, "but they might have a queer cut". Other potential giveaway signs were that he may have been carrying a wireless transmitter, foreign chocolate, food with paper showing its foreign origins, or foreign matchboxes. |
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