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BRITISH SECRET AGENT WARTIME FATE PROBED (10 a.m.) LONDON, Dec. 14. The Foreign Office issued a statement vindicating a British Secret Service agent, Captain Christopher James Lord, whose bullet-riddled body was found In 1943 in a disused pit in Tanus, a village near Toulousp. A statement says that French press reports in January. 1947, alleged that Lord had been executed on War Office orders because he imperilled the lives of his companions and the success of a wartime mission on which he and they parachuted into France. The Foreign Office says there is no evidence that Lord betrayed either the mission or his companions and denies categorically he was killed on instructions from the War Office which did not know about his death until the French police and Scotland Yard began inquiries this year which established the identity of the body in the well as Lord’s. . „ , The Daily Telegraph says that police investigations indicated Lord was murdered because he was carrying a large sum of money.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22511, 15 December 1947, Page 5
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