The Limping Lady | WW2 | Spy Sisters
True Spies: Espionage | Investigation | Crime | Murder | Detective | Politics
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Robert Alesh - A Priest
Robert Alesh offered his services as a spy in late 1941. His reputation as a staunch anti-Nazi allowed him access to the WOL circuit. Soon, he was intercepting their intelligence and delivering them to German bosses. It was Alesh who had lured the captured WOL agents to their arrest at the hands of the Gestapo. In time, he would engineer the capture of 60 more members of the group. The money that Virginia and the SOE had entrusted him with had never reached its intended recipients.
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