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implausible spyWritten by BBC R4 Documentary
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Bernard Durrant tells his story.
Recruited to British military intelligence while a
teenager. Posted to Germany as a secret agent.
Captured in 1939. To save his life he agreed to
become a double agent.
Posted to Egypt to spy on British shipping, escaped
his German minders, turned himself over to British
military, who sent him back to prison in Britain, where
he remained for the rest of the war.