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May 20, 2020 · The police safeguarded Chapman until the MI5, Britain’s rather small security service and domestic intelligence agency, took him to Camp 020, a secret detention center where Lieutenant Colonel Robin “Tin Eye” Stephens — the nickname a reference to the steel-rimmed monocle he wore at all times — debriefed him. Stephens was notorious ...
Oct 18, 2023 · During interrogation at Camp 020 (MI5’s interrogation center in southwest London), the man displayed a complete willingness to collaborate, openly sharing every detail with his interrogators ...
Apr 8, 2019 · The programme proved controversial owing to its depiction of a physical assault during interrogation at an MI5 facility, Camp 020, during the Second World War. Numerous 020 veterans complained, pointing out that, with one exception, such physical violence had never taken place there.
- Christopher Andrew Article
- Murphy’s Article
- Kathleen Williams
- Aenea Allen
- Eileen Ball
- Miss/Mrs Helen Clegg
- Nancy Farquarson
- Margaret Randall
- Mrs. Frances Shanks
- The Last Survivor of Camp 020 Secretarial Staff
Before we get to Murphy’s article, however, I want to touch on an article written by Christopher Andrew in 2014 as an introduction to a volume entitled Interrogation in War and Conflict: A Comparative and Interdisciplinary Analysis.Andrew quoted the 1980 letter written by the Camp 020 secretaries as well, but only mentions the name of one of them, ...
On page 4 of his article, Murphy cites the letter written by a group of 10 former Camp 020 secretaries. He helpfully gives their names and, in some instances, their maiden names. I’m going to do a bit of digging here and see if I can trace these women.
Kathleen seems to have been the chief letter writer, as her name is quoted most often by Murphy and also by Christopher Andrew. With a surname like Williams, however, there isn’t much hope of finding anything concrete about her. I did a Google search for “Kathleen Williams” and “Camp 020” and came up with nothing.
N.B. Much of the information in this section comes from an article on Aenea’s husband, William Sidney Allen, published in the Proceedings of the British Academy in 2006. This linkopens the article as a pdf. We have much more luck with Aenea. She was born Aenea Janet McCallum on 15 June 1919 in Rosskeen, Rosshire, Scotland. Her parents were the Reve...
Alas, too common a name, and no other identifying information make Eileen too hard to trace with certainty.
Anyone who has looked at the MI5 files of agents who passed through Camp 020 will know the name Clegg. It shows up frequently on Latchmere House reports. I had always assumed that Clegg was a man but… now I wonder. Murphy’s article refers to Helen Clegg as Miss in one instance and Mrs in another instance which makes it difficult to trace her.
No luck with Nancy either. There isn’t even a Nancy Farquarson in Ancestry although a Phyllis Helen N. Farquarson could be a match…
There is a possible match with a Carol M. Davidson who married a James G. Randall in the first quarter of 1964 in Middlesex. Beyond that, however, there is nothing solid enough to hang a hat on…
This is a bit more promising as Murphy’s article names two brothers, Alan and William Shanks, who had worked as interrogators at Camp 020. In one place, Murphy notes that Alan and Frances were interviewed together in 1980, suggesting that perhaps they were married. And…. we have success. Frances M.H. Lepper married Alan D.F. Shanks in the first qua...
For his 2014 article, Andrew apparently interviewed one of the former Camp 020 secretaries: Cobain’s conclusions are disputed by the only known surviving member of staff of Camp 020 in Britain today: a retired magistrate, who worked there as a secretary from 1942-1945. She insists, like her late colleagues after the BBC programme broadcast over 30 ...
Feb 9, 2021 · Wikimedia Commons Latchmere House, in the suburbs of West London, was the site of Camp 020, where a wide range of fascists, criminals, and potential double agents, including Eddie Chapman, were held during World War II.
Camp 020 at Latchmere House in south-west London was a British interrogation centre for captured German agents during the Second World War. [1] It was run by Lieutenant Colonel Robin "Tin Eye" Stephens.
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British military leaders interrogated him at Latchmere House, also called Camp 020, in west London. The skeptical camp commandant said Chapman considered himself “something of a prince of the underworld,” as quoted on the British Broadcasting Company's BBC News Web site.
