(Guardian-UK)Ben Aris - Frank Foley worked as an intelligence chief in the 1920s and 30s at the British embassy in Berlin. Foley headed the embassy's visa section and had no diplomatic immunity. But secretly he was station chief in Germany for the forerunner of MI6. Once the pogroms against the Jews began in the early 30s he "tore up the rule book," says Michael Smith, author of a book on Foley. He ignored strict regulations and issued thousands of visas to Jews trying to escape persecution.
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