Lieutenant Colonel Dudley Clarke, a ‘key figure in British intelligence’ in the Middle East in the Second World War, set alarm bells ringing in Whitehall when he was arrested dressed as a woman.

Lieutenant Colonel Dudley Clarke, a key figure in British intelligence in the Middle East in the Second World War, set alarm bells ringing in Whitehall when he was arrested in Madrid dressed as a ...

Lieutenant Colonel Dudley Clarke was undercover as a correspondent for the Times when detained in the Spanish capital in 1941. He was "dressed, down to a brassiere, as a woman", ...

Lieutenant Colonel Dudley Clarke was in possession of military secrets when he was held by Spanish police en route to deliver a vital message to the Allies’ Commander-in-Chief in the Middle East ...

Lieutenant Colonel Dudley Clarke was travelling to Cairo to deliver information to British General Auchinleck, commander-in-chief of the Middle East theatre, when he stopped over in Madrid and was ...

One of Britain's most influential World War II spies was arrested in Madrid for cross-dressing, files released by the National Archives show. Lieutenant Colonel Dudley Clarke was undercover as a ...