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Family life with Romanian spy behind Iron Curtain revealed by British woman

Mrs Donovan only discovered that the man who tried to break up her parents' marriage 50 years ago had been approached to spy for both the Russians and British, when secret files were released by MI5 this week.

The files include an impassioned letter from her father, Fred, who worked as a television repairman in Mitcham, Surrey, begging the Home Office for help by throwing the Romanian spy, Alexandru Ionescu, out of the country.

Neither Mr Donovan, nor his family knew that MI5 had tried to recruit the tall, tanned pilot who was brought to Britain but eventually rejected as a spy because he was regarded as "an unstable self-interested type".
Read entire article at Telegraph (UK)