They stopped, got out of the cab, jumped over the fence and approached what looked like a German parachute jumper. When they drove by the field they saw someone waving a flashlight in their direction. On the night of Hansen’s parachute jump, two Scottish truck drivers taking an overnight shipment of herring to Fraserburgh, Scotland, noticed a plane circling above the woods near the town. The British usually expected these spies because they knew when they were coming by intercepting and decrypting radio communications. Many of the famous double agents like Eddie Chapman parachuted into the country. After the British forbade Germans and other enemy aliens from entering England, the Nazis snuck their agents onto the island with rubber boats or parachuted them in from the sky. He wasn’t the first Nazi spy to parachute into England during World War II. Hansen jumped out of a German plane circling above the Scottish Highlands and parachuted into a field shortly after midnight on 1 October 1943. But the Nazis really wanted him to go to the United Kingdom, parachute out of a plane in Scotland, and find work in a Scottish coal mine, which he could use as a base to transmit military information.īy the fall of 1943, the Nazis’ vision came true. Hansen was a Norwegian coal miner who agreed to work for the Nazis from his home in the coal mining island of Stavanger,Norway, across the sea from Scotland. When I hit the keyword search for secret writing, I came across a number of interesting files, including the one about a Nickolay Hansen. I discovered this story in the security service archives about German World War II secret agents files kept by British National Archives. Even if they did, there is no reason they should suspect a filled or capped tooth contains invisible ink or poison or other dangerous things spies put in their teeth. Of course, hiding invisible ink in a tooth is one of the more bizarre concealments, but it’s a good one because border control agents usually don’t ask people to open their mouths for inspection.
It’s probably my favorite because one of the most intriguing aspects of the history of secret writing is the inventive way in which people concealed their materials. My favorite secret ink story is about a Nazi spy who secreted invisible ink in his tooth.
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