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How to forge a secret agent: the history of the Briggens House forgery unit.

Speaker: Charles Pither

Academic consultant physician and author

Briggens House, Essex is an 18th century manor house, requisitioned by the MOD in WW2. It was used initially for training Polish army exiles, being prepared to return to Poland to engage in acts of sabotage. Such personnel required fake documents, and the Poles established a forgery unit in the basement. This is the story of that secret unit.

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