John Baker White

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John Baker White (born August 12, 1902 in West Malling , Kent , † December 10, 1988 ) was a British political activist.

Life and activity

Baker White was the son of Katherine Blythe White. The parents divorced in 1907. After attending Malvern College, White worked as a farm laborer at Polshill Farm in Sussex from 1920. His employer Arthur Mannington brought him together with Horatio Bottomley . Through this he came to the service of the Anti-Socialist Union in the early 1920s, an organization that aimed to combat alleged left-wing subversion in Great Britain. He then went to work for the Economic League, an anti-communist lobby group financed from private sources, behind which a private intelligence service was concealed, and of which he was director from 1936 to 1939.

In 1937 Baker White was sent to National Socialist Germany as a spy, where he was welcomed as a well-known anti-communist and invited to participate in the Nazi party rally of that year. In April 1939 he had to leave the country after making public statements about the functioning of the National Socialist propaganda and infiltration work.

Soon afterwards, the National Socialist police officers classified him as an enemy of the state: in the spring of 1940, the Reich Main Security Office in Berlin put him on the special wanted list GB , a list of people who would be killed by the occupying forces in the event of a successful invasion and occupation of the British Isles by the Wehrmacht Special SS commandos were to be identified and arrested with special priority.

After the start of World War II, Baker White entered the service of Section D, one of the main bearers of British war propaganda. In the first year of the war, his main task was to launch misleading propaganda messages into Germany, which were intended to convince the clear population and, above all, members of the Wehrmacht that the British measures to ward off a German invasion were much more advanced and much more effective - an invasion the British main island is thus far more difficult - than was actually the case at the time, in order to increase the will of the German side to refrain from an attempt at invasion.

In the general election of the summer of 1945, Baker White was elected as a Conservative Party candidate for the Canterbury constituency of the House of Commons, which he then belonged to until 1953. He resigned early to become steward (curator) of the Northstead Manor. His lower house was occupied by Leslie Thomas after a by-election .

In 1965, Baker White retired from public office and from then on devoted himself to agriculture.

Fonts

  • Red Russia Arms , 1932.
  • The Innocents' Clubs , 1935.
  • Dover Nurenberg Return , 1937.
  • The Red Network , 1939.
  • Its gone for Good , 1941.
  • A Soldier Dares to Think , 1942.
  • Nationalization: Chaos or Cure? , 1946.
  • The Soviet Spy System , 1948.
  • The Big Lie , 1955.
  • Pattern for Conquest , 1956.
  • Sabotage is Suspected , 1957.
  • True Blue , 1970.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ John Baker White on the special wanted list G: B. (Reproduced on the website of the Imperial War Museum in London).
personal data
SURNAME White, John Baker
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British political activist
DATE OF BIRTH August 12, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH West Malling , Kent
DATE OF DEATH December 10, 1988