Winthrop Pickard Bell

[15][4][16] In his latter years he focused his energies on historical research, much of which concerned the group of mid-18th-Century immigrants to Nova Scotia known as the "Foreign Protestants".

[14][19]: 308–10 During the interview phase of Winthrop Bell's recruitment, Canadian Prime Minister Robert Borden invited him to dinner at Claridge's on December 3, 1918.

In late January 1919, Bell met with Mansfield Smith-Cumming and officially became an MI6 agent, with Canada underwriting the cost of his employment.

[19]: 77f, 90, 105 Winthrop Bell's professional cover was as a Reuters reporter, and he filed many news stories that were syndicated in English media.

He personally briefed UK Prime Minister David Lloyd George and Robert Borden on the same day during the Paris Peace Conference.

Bell warned, "every day incidents occur showing how imminent is the danger of an outburst which would lead to the fiercest and bloodiest kind of civil war.

They traveled onto Göttingen, where they began an 18-day trip with Wilhelm Runge who had been a intelligence asset for Bell during his first stint as a spy.

Before it was classified, he published their research to make sure the entire world had access to German technology and eliminated the Nazi's advantage.

He also slowed progress by creating two separate radar research tracks, one within Telefunken under Hermann Göring's purview and the other under the navy.

[19]: 263 When the great advance of centimetre wave radar neared, Runge lied that it was impractical and insured that research was defunded in 1942.

In February 1943, when the Germans shot down a British Stirling bomber they were shocked to realize it had functioning centimetric radar.

When Hitler invaded Poland, five months after Bell wrote his warning, Saturday Night finally agreed to publish it.

Bell focuses on Mein Kampf's theme of expanding Germany to create lebensraum and closely reads Hitler's plans for how conquered territory will be managed: exclusively by Germans.

"[24] In part two, Bell presses his point by quoting Hitler's aspiration to "take up where we left off six hundred years ago".

Bell also turns Hitler's interpretation of Germany's "slow execution" under the Treaty of Versailles into a prescription for Nazi treatment of conquered lands.

Bell predicted that Hitler would "arrange the stages of the 'gradual execution' as to mask its real nature as long as possible not only from the victims but also from the rest of the world."