Eric Roberts worked as a humble bank clerk while secretly posing as Gestapo agent Jack King to infiltrate UK fascist groups during the Second World War. The MI5 agent was so successful he gained the trust of 500 Nazi ­sympathisers and stopped vital information making its way to Hitler’s Germany. Granddaughter Marilyn said: “As a child I knew grandad was a spy during the war but our family had no idea what that really involved. (Image: ALEX LUKEY PHOTOGRAPHY)Eric was recruited by MI5 spymaster Maxwell Knight – said to have inspired Bond character M – in the 1930s. Eric joined the British Union of Fascists, led by Oswald Mosley and got to know many of Hitler’s British sympathisers.

Source: Daily Mirror February 01, 2020 18:56 UTC