British deemed Bowen reports espionage

KATHLEEN FITZGIBBON says she has “one, if not two, advantages over Mr Lane.

I lived through the World War II years in Ireland, and attended the Trevor/Bowen school last August bank holiday weekend.” (Letters, August 29.)

However, on the actual point at issue — Bowen’s espionage reports to Churchill — Ms Fitzgibbon and I are in the same position because neither she nor I could have read any of Bowen’s 200-odd reports either during the war or subsequently, as they were secret reports and the vast majority were destroyed. The few that survived were never published by her admirers, until I did so a few years ago.