That October she and MI5 moved to Oxford, where she worked at Blenheim Palace translating Italian and enjoying the social life.

[1] At the end of the war, Elwell was sent to Rome where she spent a year as head of section reading the papers of the Italians.

Joining the RNVR in 1940 to smuggle British agents into occupied territory, he was captured as a prisoner-of-war in Colditz Castle, being released only at the end of the war.

He was initially involved during the 1950s and early 1960s with tracking down Soviet espionage activities of the Portland spy ring and John Vassall, for which he was awarded an OBE.

He remained preoccupied with "subversives" working in Britain, targeting Labour Party politicians and trades unionists such as Patricia Hewitt, Harriet Harman and Jack Dromey.