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Venlo Incident: Two British agents of SIS are captured by the Germans.
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Venlo incident
1939 capture of British MI6 agents by Nazi intelligence services outside Venlo, Netherlands
The Venlo incident was a covert operation carried out by the German Nazi Party's Sicherheitsdienst (SD) on 9 November 1939, which resulted in the capture of two British Secret Intelligence Service agents five metres (16 ft) from the German border, on the outskirts of the Dutch…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
MI6
British intelligence agency
The Secret Intelligence Service (SIS), commonly known as MI6, is the foreign intelligence service of the United Kingdom, tasked mainly with the covert overseas collection and analysis of human intelligence on foreign nationals in support of its Five Eyes partners. SIS is one of…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)