North American Society for Intelligence History,  2023 conference, U. Calgary

Abstract:

As a young man, he experienced the Russian Revolution, imprisonment, and coercion by Soviet
counterintelligence. He moved to Switzerland and then London, the city in which he spent years
working as a professional journalist, befriending and interviewing people ranging from military
trainees to ministers, playwrights to publishers, gathering information on everything from garden
parties to labor unions to foreign policy. He wrote four books and hundreds of articles, was
watched by intelligence agencies in multiple countries, and eventually was deported by Britain as
a spy who wrote secret reports read by Adolf Hitler.
No one remembers him, but now his story is being uncovered. It raises tantalizing questions
about known and unknown historical events, and poses opportunities for further research.