Have you heard of The Military Intelligence Museum? They'll be moving to the London Tunnels! Originally built as part of the UK government’s strategy to protect its citizens from the Blitz bombings, the mile-long series of tunnels have been kept secret for nearly 70 years! These tunnels will be turned into a major tourist attraction targeting up to 3 million visitors per year, and if you like military history, then I'm certain you'll be visiting this museum one day in the future! I'm proud to serve as an ambassador for the museum and wholeheartedly support this extraordinary project! Join me in showing your support too by Following them: @mi_intel

I have been privileged and delighted for many years to serve as an Ambassador for the Military Intelligence Museum. Closed to the public since 1945, the current site at Milton Bryan, Bedfordshire was the Top Secret broadcasting centre of the Political Warfare Executive’s highly successful black propaganda into Nazi-occupied Europe. But soon the Museum will be expanding and moving! Kingsway Exchange Tunnels, built as part of the UK government’s strategy to protect its citizens from bombing during what became known as the London Blitz, will become the new location! The Museum is looking to become a major London tourist attraction targeting over 3 million visitors per year! The mile-long series of tunnels have been kept secret for nearly 70 years—and soon you'll be able to step inside! It is an incredibly exciting development. Please 'Follow' them on social media and stay up-to-date with this fabulous initiative—I do hope one day you'll visit: @mi_intel

I am delighted to the host of these exciting vid-podcasts - coming on 9 June. All things intelligence and spies… @MalcolmNance @ForcesNews @Int_Corps

BOOK GIVEAWAY! 📖 2x Winners will be selected at random on Sunday 16th February at 6pm UK time, to each win a signed copy of my book 'X Troop Commando'. To enter, simply 'Like' this post & ensure you 'Follow' me. Best of luck... And thank you for all your support!

We've all heard of MI5 and MI6, but how much do you know about MI9? Join me for a completely free online talk in July in partnership with The National Archives as I break down this incredible WW2 top secret unit. Limited availability: bit.ly/45c5pdJ

I’ve been reading MI9’s documents on how to escape from the jungle during WW2. If you are interested in learning about MI9, you can join me in partnership with @UkNatArchives for a free online talk about this secret Second World War unit.

During WWII, Yvonne Jones served in the WAAF and was assigned to RAF Chicksands in the summer of 1942, where she worked as a radio operator for the Y-Service. She responsible for intercepting enemy communications and locating transmitters. #WWII

Pearl Witherington acted as a courier for the SOE Stationer Network, undertaking covert missions in enemy territory and parachuting into France in September 1943. She made history as the sole female leader of an SOE network and subsequently took charge of 3,000 men following the D-Day landings.

On #InternationalWomensDay, we salute the women – named and unnamed in civilian and uniformed intelligence services – who have worked in utmost secrecy across the decades. Their legacy is immense.

Across two world wars, women carried secret messages, were spies, codebreakers and heads of Intelligence networks. #InternationalWomensDay

#OTD 1972: 'Spymaster' Colonel Thomas Joseph Kendrick OBE, dies. Kendrick served in Military Intelligence in France during the First World War, and then throughout the 1920s and 1930s was the British Passport Officer in Vienna - a cover for his true work as Head of Station for MI6. In 1939, Kendrick was attached to the Intelligence Corps and from then until 1945 he headed the Combined Services Detailed Intelligence Centre (CSDIC), a tri-service intelligence unit of Army, Air, and Navy. CSDIC was in charge of bugging the conversations of German Generals during the Second World War. Trent Park, Latimer House, and Wilton Park were covered with microphones to capture every conversation between the Generals, with the aim of picking up vital war intelligence. It worked, with Churchill supplying an unlimited budget for the project. Kendrick hired many German Jewish refugees and émigré women to listen and translate the conversations as they were fluent in native German. The intelligence they gained at these sites was vital to the war effort and is now recognised as having helped shorten the war alongside Bletchley Park, RAF Medmenham, and other clandestine wartime sites. Kendrick also trained American intelligence officers at his sites, who were early Office of Strategic Services (OSS) which later became the CIA. Regressing back to his work in Vienna, he also saved the lives of over 10,000+ Jews by faking visa documents and going against government orders. He was working 15-hour shifts to process up to 175 applications per day. He retired from MI6 and the Intelligence Corps in 1948, and died on this day in 1972, aged 91.

It was great to help with the material and photographs for the CSDIC / MI19 display that includes Catherine Townshend @mi_intel