We do not know very much about Eric Roberts. He joined Westminster Bank aged 17. He worked in various London branches. He rose, but not very far, to be a lower-middle grade clerk, who took a couple of holidays in Germany and enjoyed ju-jitsu and judo. He had a family and lived near Epsom. In 1935, the bank sent him on a seven-week “machine accountancy” course.
But he also worked undercover for MI5, controlling and neutralising hundreds of Nazi sympathisers and “fifth columnists” in Britain, by himself posing as a German agent.
Eric Roberts, bank clerk, was a “genius spy” who helped see off the Nazi threat.
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