John Baker White (12 August 1902 – 10 December 1988)[1] started his career as a political activist and became a director of a private organisation dedicated to fighting left-wing subversion.
[4] He then worked for the Economic League, a privately funded anti-Communist pressure group and intelligence organization, serving as its Director from 1926 to 1939.
Immediately before the war, he spent time in Germany as a spy; accepted there as an ardent anti-communist, he was invited to attend the Nuremberg Rally of 1937; he wrote about this experience in Dover-Nürnberg, Return.
[7] The job of Baker White and of his handful of co-workers was to cook up stories to be fed to the enemy and give him a quite false impression of the state of Britain's defences.
He was also chair of The Freedom Association in Kent and he published four autobiographical books: It's Gone for Good, The Big Lie, Sabotage is Suspected and True Blue.