Nigel Nelson has revealed that he discovered his mother "was an MI6 spy during the war" as he uncovered a rare family secret.Nelson told GB News that he always believed his mother was merely a "humble Foreign Office clerk" during her time at the codebreaking facility. READ THE FULL STORY HERE
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00:00with you please and talk about V-Day, obviously these glorious commemorations all of this week
00:04but you've found a very personal story in amongst all of this haven't you? I did yes indeed it was
00:09by my mother and I knew that my mother had been at Bletchley Park with the code breakers during
00:15the war. I knew that she'd gone to Germany immediately after the war, she was at Nuremberg
00:21trials, clearing up the concentration camps and her basic job was to try and find German scientists
00:30to buy them back for Britain and she had to investigate if they had an active Nazi past
00:37in which case we wouldn't touch them. What I didn't know about her was it turned out she was a spy
00:44and that she'd always told me that at Bletchley she was a humble foreign office clerk just sort
00:52of plotting U-boat packs around the North Atlantic. Oh and she was so glam as well Nigel. And then I
00:59went to Bletchley just on a Sunday afternoon out and suddenly discovered that she'd been MI6. She
01:05was the liaison officer in the naval hut so which was to send intelligence to MI6. They would then
01:14send it on to the Admiralty provided it didn't reveal we'd broken the Enigma codes. But it made
01:20bits of my own life sort of fall into place. She never told, you found out by accident. But I found
01:25out looking at the role of honour at Bletchley Park when I found her name, her name was there and all
01:31blank about her service record with a bit of the margin saying the Foreign Office is holding the
01:37file on her. And when I asked the archivists at Bletchley they said ah that means that she was in
01:43MI6. And I've been back several times and talked to the veterans there with pictures of my mother
01:50and one of them recognised her as the MI6 liaison officer from the the naval hut. Wow. That is amazing. Can you get a file from the Foreign Office? No I tried. I did go to...
02:02Because it can't be sensitive now. Well you'd think so. I went to the public record office and found that any papers that might include mentions of her are all closed.
02:14I still closed after all these years. I even approached MI6 and said would they help me out?
02:21Nothing came of that. So there are still bits I don't know. But it put things into perspective
02:27because over the years. So you know it's just nice to know about her.
02:33Yeah absolutely.
02:34What a great question.