THE SECRET SERVICE.
A GLIMPSE OF ITS WORK. AN ENGLISHMAN’S TASK. By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received Feb. 8, 7.25 p.m, London, Feb. 7. The King’s Bench awarded Herbert Booth £5OO damages against the Daily Herald for libel, accusing him of being a spy agent provocateur. Booth, who joined the Secret Service during the war, took exception to being characterised as an agent provocateur. Plaintiff, in his evidence, stated that he went about the country disguised as a conscientious objector with Bolshevik tendencies. He thus secured admittance to revolutionary clubs and watched aliens believed to be in enemy pay. He discovered the plot to attack Mr. Lloyd George with poisoned darts. He was the principal witness in the Wheeldom case, and was also connected with the discovery of a plot to obtain the secret Pomeroy bullet which brought down Zeppelins. While attending a revolutionary meeting he saw another person ejected as Booth the spy. He denied he ever acted as an agent provocateur. AU3.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Taranaki Daily News, 9 February 1921, Page 5
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164THE SECRET SERVICE. Taranaki Daily News, 9 February 1921, Page 5
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