Agent Snow X-ray photos (a) genuine torch battery (b) torch battery time clock and detonator (c) shaving soap time clock and detonator

Date: 1941 Reference: KV 2/450 Creator: Security Service Catalogue context: Selected Historical Papers from the SNOW case. SNOW was a Welsh-born, naturalised Canadian, electrical engineer. In 1936 he volunteered to report information obtained during business visits to Hamburg to British Naval Intelligence and he was recruited as an agent by SIS. In September 1936 a letter from him to a known Abwehr correspondence address showed that he was also reporting to the Abwehr without SIS's knowledge. Confronted, SNOW admitted that he had been recruited by the Germans, although neither then nor later did he give a convincing account of when, or of the extent of his dealings. Formally cautioned about these contacts, he nevertheless went on reporting to, and being paid by, the Abwehr by letter and visits. In January he volunteered an Abwehr radio set deposited in the left luggage office at Victoria Station. In September 1939 SNOW was interned under DR 18 (B) but quickly released as a controlled radio and correspondence agent of the Security Service. He continued to operate as such until Mar... Categories: Second World War Subjects: Conflict; Intelligence; Internment; Navy; Operations, battles and campaigns; Radio and television Topics: Arts and culture; Military and war Period: Second World War Copyright information: Copyright clearance for publication is not required, except in the case of documents in third-party copyright. Usage terms: https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documents/information-management/use-of-tna-materials.pdf