On Wednesday, March 2, 1938 as the Nazi were edging closer to the Austrian border, Jessie Jordan was completely unaware M15 officers were circling the outside of her hair salon.
The quiet hairdresser was the opposite of a James Bond type. Far from playing cat and mouse with the cops, the Glaswegian mother-of-two had no clue she was about to be arrested, accused of acting as a German go-between.
The 50-year-old hairstylist was known to the authorities as the most hapless of Hitler’s spies, caught out by a nosey employee who saw her boss stuffing Nazi documents into her purse months before the war had even begun.
