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  Anna Wolkoff - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Anna Wolkoff was the eldest child of Admiral Nikolai Wolkoff (1870–1954), who was the last Imperial Russian naval attaché in London.
Anna and her father held extreme right-wing views and were sympathizers of the Nazi regime in Germany.
Anna Wolkoff and Tyler Kent were arrested and charged with violating the Official Secrets Act on May 20.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Anna_Wolkoff   (730 words)

  
 Tyler Kent - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
He was observed being a frequent guest of the Russian Tea Room in South Kensington, a habitué for White Russians led by Adm. Nikolai Wolkoff, the former naval attaché for Imperial Russia in London, and his wife, a former maid of honor to the Tsaritsa.
Anna Wolkoff herself made copies of some of these documents on April 13, and sent them to Berlin through an intermediary from the Italian Embassy.
Wolkoff approached fellow Right Club member Joan Miller, and asked her if she could pass a coded letter to William Joyce through her contacts at the Italian Embassy.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tyler_Kent   (1269 words)

  
 Anna Wolkoff
Anna Wolkoff, the daughter of Admiral Nikolai Wolkoff, was born in Russia in 1902.
Anna Wolkoff visited Nazi Germany several times in the 1930s and had meetings with Hans Frank and Rudolf Hess.
Anna Wolkoff was short and dark-haired, not very impressive in appearance, and displayed the intensity of manner which is often associated with those of a fanatical disposition.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /SSwolkoff.htm   (1280 words)

  
 Right Club
Wolkoff was the daughter of Admiral Nikolai Wolkoff, the former aide-to-camp to the Nicholas II in London.
Anna Wolkoff and Tyler Kent were arrested and charged under the Official Secrets Act.
Anna instructed her helpers to keep to the dark side of the road, paying particular attention to shadowy doorways where an alert policeman or air-raid warden might lurk, and to carry out the sticking while continuing to walk.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /2WWrightclub.htm   (3776 words)

  
 TBRNews.org
Anna Wolkoff had also developed a close relationship with Tyler Kent, the newly arrived code clerk at the US Embassy in London, whom she had introduced to Ramsay -- a declared admirer of Mussolini and of Nazi Germany.
By May, 1940, Anna Wolkoff's most important associate in espionage, other than Ambassador Bastianini, was the US Embassy's code clerk Tyler Kent, who had been ordered transferred to London from the US Embassy in Moscow in late September 1939 and had reached London directly from Moscow in early October, 1939.
Anna Wolkoff was later also tried secretly, separately by herself, on charges of being a "foreign agent." The British did not call Franklin C. Gowen to give testimony at Wolkoff’s trial, Neither did they give Gowen a transcript of Anna Wolkoff's secret trial.
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 Talk:Anna Wolkoff - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It was actually Admiral Sir William Reginald Hall, the Director of Naval Intelligence during World War I who helped the Wolkoff family in their application for naturalization.
Despite the fact that Anna Wolkoff was placed under surveillance by MI5 and Scotland Yard's Special Branch, she in fact knew Sir Vernon Kell socially and actually wrote to him for advice after she had been warned that her activities would get her into trouble.
The German-born actor Ferdy Mayne was also an undercover agent for MI5, but his cover was blown upon testimony by Joan Miller.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Talk:Anna_Wolkoff   (231 words)

  
 Wolkoff   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
In 1871 Ivan Wolkoff and his family became Finnish citizens and they bought a house in Kauppakatu where they established their shop and home.
The furniture of the ladies' study was provided by Anna Wolkoff-Nissinen as she moved back home to live with his brother and his family after her husband died.
There are also three bedrooms in the house, one was for Anna, one for Johannes and his wife and one for their children.
www.aurora.komvux.norrkoping.se /etel/history/02/Wolkoff.htm   (534 words)

  
 Right wing establshment influence in Scotland and the UK   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Wolkoff ran the Russian Tea Room in South Kensington and this eventually became the main meeting place for members of the Right Club.
Agents warned that Wolkoff had developed a close relationship with Wallis Simpson (the future wife of Edward VIII) and that the two women might be involved in passing state secrets to the German government.
Soon afterwards Anna Wolkoff asked Joan Miller if she would use her contacts at the Italian Embassy to pass a coded letter to William Joyce (Lord Haw-Haw) in Germany.
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 Mi5 Forums - Our History :D   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Miller also believed that Anna Wolkoff, who ran the Russian Tea Room in South Kensington, the main meeting place for members of the Right Club, was also involved in espionage.
In February 1940, Anna Wolkoff met Tyler Kent, a cypher clerk from the American Embassy.
Soon afterwards Wolkoff asked Joan Miller if she would use her contacts at the Italian Embassy to pass a coded letter to William Joyce (Lord Haw-Haw) in Germany.
forums.mi5clan.com /showthread.php?t=921   (4413 words)

  
 Captain Archibald Henry Maule Ramsay - Stormfront White Nationalist Community   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
By this time Archibald Ramsay was being helped in his work by two women, Anna Wolkoff and Joan Miller.
In February 1940, Wolkoff met Tyler Kent, a cypher clerk from the American Embassy.
Wolkoff, Kent and Ramsay talked about politics and agreed that they all shared the same views on Jews.
www.stormfront.org /forum/showthread.php?p=662009&mode=threaded   (4170 words)

  
 Preparing for the Costume Institute Ball - A Military Invasion Run by Vogue and the Met
You are cordially invited to watch Anna Wintour, Karl Lagerfeld, and a cast of thousands as they prepare for the most excessive, obsessive, competitive, stage-managed, micromanaged, luxurious, fabulous party of the social season: the Costume Institute Ball.
Wolkoff is out the door and shouting-distance away, a phone on each ear, manipulating 700 Post-it notes—a socialite Bobby Fischer—but in Wintour’s office all is calm, a self-important hush.
She plans this party with the help of Emily Rafferty, the similarly smooth-tempered well-kept president of the Met, and Vogue’s Wolkoff, who, tall and clear-eyed, is a popular member of what Wolkoff calls “the socials,” the Upper East Siders who are happy to pay for their tickets.
www.newyorkmetro.com /nymetro/shopping/fashion/features/11894   (569 words)

  
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Stephanie Winston Wolkoff is an alumnus of Suffield Academy in Connecticut.
She graduated Cum Laude from Loyola University in New Orleans with a degree in Communications and was named a member of Kappa Tau Alpha, the National Honor Society in Journalism and Mass Communications.
She has served on the committee of many events through the years but is now closely involved with The Central Park Conservancy, serving as a co-chair for the 150 Anniversary Celebration as well as a member of the Steering Committee for New Yorkers for Children.
www.babybuggy.org /page11.asp?pg=wolkoff   (352 words)

  
 Post fascist hatemail
The 'Hail' must be a misp-spelling of 'heil', and as for the idea that Chesterton, Mosley and Joyce were in some way allies - in hell they're fighting even now.
Anna Wolkoff's acheivement lay in a piece of spectacularly stupid espionage, which managed to convince MI5 that the massed ranks of British fascism were immediate threats to the secturity of the British state.
As a result of Wolkoff, the Mosleys and their followers had to spend most of the 1939-45 war in detention as traitors.
www.dkrenton.co.uk /fascist_hatemail.html   (180 words)

  
 SIGHTINGS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
In the women's list is Anna Wolkoff, who was later accused of spying with American cypher clerk Tyler Kent.
Lord Sempill, a famous aviator of the inter-war years, was suspected of spying from his post at the Admiralty and was secretly retired by Churchill to prevent a scandal.
He and Wolkoff were accused of supplying the Germans with secret cables between Churchill and the US President.
www.rense.com /ufo6/nazisym.htm   (2029 words)

  
 WorldNetDaily: Hitler and Stalin's spies from U.S. prep schools
Anna Wolkoff believed her parents had been the victims of communist Jews who incited the Russian revolution.
She introduced him to a decorated veteran of the British army in World War I, a distant relative of the royal family named A.H.M. Ramsay, who had become a member of Parliament.
Anna gave copies of these papers to Don Francesco Maringliano, Duke of Del Monte – and a Lt. Col.
www.wnd.com /news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=30721   (1785 words)

  
 State Secrets, Tyler Kent, Winston Churchill, Roosevelt, President, Naval Person, Gray Code, MI5, Joseph P Kennedy, ...
Her Code Name was M/Y. She testified at the trials of TYLER KENT and ANNA WOLKOFF.
She later wrote 'her memoirs' in which she exaggerated the rather inconsequential role that she played in the TYLER KENT - ANNA WOLKOFF affair, by claiming to have carried out tasks performed by others.
His plan was aborted by the war and he, his wife and over 750 of his supporters were interned under DR 18B(1A) that had been designed to cripple the BUF.
www.statesecrets.co.uk /who/index-m.shtml   (534 words)

  
 State Secrets, Tyler Kent, Winston Churchill, Roosevelt, President, Naval Person, Gray Code, MI5, Joseph P Kennedy, ...
The grandfather of ANNA WOLKOFF who, according to Anna, had been one of the most erudite men in Russia.
Anna was the eldest of four children of ADMIRAL WOLKOFF.
During adulthood, she always referred to herself as 'De Wolkoff'.
www.statesecrets.co.uk /who/index-w.shtml   (281 words)

  
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1940 - Tyler Kent, a clerk at the US Embassy in London, and Anna Wolkoff, a Russian emigree, are arrested on spying charges.
Kent has had access to the correspondence between Churchill and Roosevelt, and Wolkoff has helped pass it to Germany via Italian diplomats.
Wolkoff has had connections with a pro-Fascist organization, the Right Club.
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The climax of Knight's encounter with domestic fascism occurred in 1940, when his section uncovered the pro- Nazi activities of Tyler Kent and Anna Wolkoff.
It is the notebook used in the trials of Tyler Kent and Anna Wolkoff.) See also PRO H0 144/22454/112-3.
Henri, Pauline -- Tyler Kent, Anna Wolkoff and the BUF in Searchlight 172, October 1989.
members.lycos.co.uk /mere_pseud_mag_ed/History/Hope1.htm   (4004 words)

  
 Biography K
The Wolfoff family ran the Russian Tea Room in South Kensington, a place where members of the secret society, the Right Club, used to meet.
Wolkoff introduced Tyler to Archibald Ramsay, the leader of the organization.
Kent and Anna Wolkoff were arrested and charged under the Official Secrets Act.
homepage.ntlworld.com /andrew.etherington/people/peoplek.htm   (1344 words)

  
 www.cyclingnews.presents road racing from around the world
While there were a number of opportunities for breaks, very few of the riders took advantage of them in order to conserve energy.
With five miles to go, Julie Young of the AutoTrader.com, Anna Millward of Saturn, and Chantal Beltman of the Dutch National Team made an attack and broke away.
However, a small break of three, including Saturn’s Anna Millward, Autotrader’s Julie Young and Dutchwoman Chantal Beltman, escaped and quickly opened a gap.
www.cyclingnews.com /results/2001/jun01/womenschallenge0110.shtml   (678 words)

  
 Zundelsite ZGram - August 26, 2000   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
In fact, people were sentenced to long terms in prison merely for peaceful activities aimed at stopping England's war against Germany.
One such was Anna Wolkoff, the daughter of an admiral in the Russian Imperial Navy.
At the Wolkoff trial he described the absent William Joyce as a traitor; a well publicized remark that should have eliminated him from presiding over the fugitive's later trial.
www.zundelsite.org /english/zgrams/zg2000/zg0008/000826.html   (1496 words)

  
 User_talk:Dbiv (Vacilando.Org)
I am actually doing some research on Anna Wolkoff, and I found some contradictory details on her year of death; one source says that she died shortly after release, one source says it's 1969, another source 1973.
When she was arrested on May 20, 1940, her arrest was witnessed and made an impression on a young boy named Len Deighton.
Thanks again for the clarification on Anna Wolkoff's death.
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 British list of suspect traitors revealed - World - www.smh.com.au
They were to be put in jail or internment camps without trial.
At least five people on the list are named in MI5 reports as associates of Anna Wolkoff, a dress designer and leading figure in British fascism who was a close friend of the Duchess of Windsor.
The duke, who had abdicated in 1936 to marry the then Wallis Simpson, had been causing embarrassment to the British government in the immediate prewar years by cultivating contacts with Hitler and his regime.
www.smh.com.au /articles/2004/10/12/1097406576207.html?oneclick=true   (515 words)

  
 BOARD OF EDUCATION
The Paul and Kate Williams Scholarship, awarded to a senior who has demonstrated outstanding capabilities in visionary thinking, entrepreneurial spirit, and/or dedication to lifelong learning.
The Dr. Jerry S. and Gail R. Wolkoff Civic Award, given to a senior who has exceeded the requirements for community service work, participated in two or more Beachwood School cocurricular activities, and achieved a 2.75 GPA in high school.
Anna Benade, Daniel Budish, Hayley Leventhal, Julian Muller, Kenneth Silverman, Meredith Stern, Ziyu Zhang
www.beachwood.k12.oh.us /district/seniorawards.htm   (1100 words)

  
 Middle East Open Encyclopedia: Len Deighton   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
His 1970 World War II historical novel Bomber about an RAF Bomber Command raid over Germany is often considered his masterpiece.
His interest in spy stories may have been at least partially inspired by his seeing Anna Wolkoff, a British citizen of Russian descent who was a Nazi spy, arrested and charged for violating the Official Secrets Act on May 20, 1940.
As she was put in the police car, her arrest was witnessed and made an impression on Len.
www.baghdadmuseum.org /ref/index.php?title=Len_Deighton   (549 words)

  
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As a result of this, and in spite of Kent having a definite link with Ramsay through both his membership of the Right Club, and his friendship with Anna Wolkoff, neither group posed any real threat.
It has been suggested by Kushner that "Ramsay and the Right Club had been considering a fascist coup d'etat", (Tony Kushner 'The Paradox of Prejudice:The Impact of Organised Anti-Semitism in Britain During an Anti-Nazi War' in 'Traditions of Intolerance' edited by Tony Kushner/Kenneth Lunn 1989, p74).
Amongst his close contacts were Ludwig Matthias a suspected Gestapo agent; Anna Wolkoff, the fanatical anti-semite and anti-communist daughter of the ex-Tsarist Naval Attaché Admiral Nicholas Wolkoff, the Wolkoffs were suspected of having involuntary NKVD connections (NKVD = People's Commassariat of Internal Affairs); and of course Ramsay and the Right Club.
members.lycos.co.uk /mere_pseud_mag_ed/History/MadDogs1.htm   (4666 words)

  
 TBRNews.org
For example: it alleged that I had come to the attention of the British because of my acquaintance with Anna Wolkoff, a refugee from Bolshevik Russia.
According to the police, this woman had a channel of communication with Germany of which she was making use.
The persons concerned as defendants are Miss Wolkoff, Capt. Archibald Ramsay, M.P., his wife Mrs.
www.tbrnews.org /Archives/a139.htm   (10845 words)

  
 TYLER KENT: The Roosevelt Legacy and The Kent Case
The implication was clear: I was supposed to be transmitting information to Germany through Wolkoff.
At the time that the State Department issued the press release referred to above, it already had at its disposal a copy of the transcript of my trial which had been held in 1940.
Those who have investigated the matter say that these papers disclose the existence of a traitorous and dangerous conspiracy to assist the enemy.
www.vho.org /GB/Journals/JHR/4/2/Kent173-203.html   (13105 words)

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