Johnny X

Spy tales more thrilling than travelogue

10 March 2010

Victoria News, 9 March 2010: To Gordon Scott, he was known as Mr. de Graaf, the nice German man who lived down the block. To others, de Graaf was known as Johnny X, a double agent working for Britain’s MI6 Secret Intelligence Service, while pretending to work for the Soviets during the Second World War. [...]

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Johnny X was global spy who became a Canuck

8 February 2010

Canadian Press, 7 Feb 10: Johnny X is Canada’s spy who came in from the cold. An enigmatic secret agent, he spent a lifetime covertly battling Nazis and Communists on several continents while living under a death sentence.
Johnny X, one of his many shadowy aliases, appears only sporadically in the historical record of 20th-century espionage. [...]

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