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in a dawn raid at his flat. Officers of MI5 found 1,929 official documents there, and besides
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Roosevelt was looking at ways to evade the
619:"Rendezvous at the Russian Tea Rooms: The Spyhunter, the Fashion Designer and the Man from Moscow by Paul Willetts – review: A tale of Nazi spies among London's elite has all the colour of a first-class thriller"
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