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Wartime spies Monday, 24 May, 2004, 12:25 GMT 13:25 UK
Spy secrets revealed
The British MI5 has released files dating back to WWI which it considers to be too old to be a security risk.

Normandy landings Spaniard behind the D-day landings
The success of the WWII allied Normandy landings was in part down to the audacity and imagination of Spanish double agent, Juan Pujol Garcia.

MI5: Interrogation, but 'no violence'
Spies caught on British soil were interrogated at Camp 020 - but MI5 reports say torture and violence were never used.

MI5 watched Mata Hari
MI5 has revealed that it had a file on the glamourous and infamous WW I spy Mata Hari, but it was unable to pin anything on her.

Airborne threat of Nazi pigeons
Nazi-trained pigeons were the target of British covert operations during World War II.


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