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Odd people : hunting spies in the First World War

Thomson, Basil, 1861-19392015
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As head of the Criminal Investigation Department of the Metropolitan Police, Basil Thomson was responsible for hunting, arresting and interrogating possible spies identified by the nascent British intelligence services before the First World War. In 'Odd People' he recalled the hysteria of his age, rocked by exuberant spy-scares provoked by German aggression in the build-up to war and by those within the British establishment who sought to manipulate popular panic.

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