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A wartime spy who infiltrated a group of British Nazi sympathisers has been identified

as a bank worker from Surrey.

It was October 2014, thousands of worker from Surrey. It was October 2014.

Thousands of miles from Surrey on Vancouver Island,

Krista MacDonald's phone rang.

The cousin called from England to say that there's a lot of news about your father.

It's just been released into the papers and on the radio.

And then all the newspapers started phoning.

First it was Britain, and then when it hit Canada,

all the newspapers, TV stations, etc. were calling.

It was hard really to take it all in.

I had somebody come to the door.

I belonged to the genealogy club. I belonged to the genealogy club.

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