Norah Constance Lavinia Briscoe (1899–1995 in Waveney, Suffolk) was a British collaborator who attempted to supply classified information to Nazi Germany during World War II.
Briscoe later wrote in her unpublished autobiography: "We seemed to have found in that other land of mountains and streams and towering forests, a corner of the world as remote from war and evil as was possible... You could pray, dance, drink, smoke, and worship as you pleased.
[3] She was also a member of the Right Club, a pro-German society founded by the right-wing extremist, Captain Archibald Maule Ramsay, the MP for Peebles and Southern Midlothian.
In conversation, Briscoe disclosed to the agent that she was working in a sensitive area of the Ministry, that she was keeping carbon copies of documents she thought would be useful to Germany and that she wanted to pass them on.
These documents related to the sites of war factories, shortages of strategic materials and the establishment of submarine bases in Northern Ireland.
On 16 June 1941, Briscoe and Hiscox were tried in camera at the Old Bailey where they both pleaded guilty to a charge under Defence Regulation 2A of intentionally communicating information which was likely to assist the enemy.