Ted Allbeury

Ted Allbeury
Allbeury in 1980.
Born24 October 1917
Stockport, Cheshire, England (now Greater Manchester)
Died4 December 2005(2005-12-04) (aged 88)
Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England
SpouseGrazyna (d.1999)
Children4

Theodore Edward le Bouthillier Allbeury (24 October 1917 – 4 December 2005) was a British author of espionage fiction.[1][2][3] He was an intelligence officer in the Special Operations Executive between 1940 and 1947, reaching the rank of lieutenant colonel. He is believed to be the only British secret agent to have parachuted into Nazi Germany during the war, remaining there until the Allied armies arrived. During the Cold War he was captured and tortured when running agents across the border between East and West Germany. After running his own advertising agency, he became managing director of the seafort-based pirate radio station Radio 390 in 1964, later moving to the ship-based Radio 355 until its closure in August 1967.[4][5]

Allbeury's first novel, A Choice of Enemies, was published in 1972.[6] He went on to publish over 40 novels, under the names Patrick Kelly, Richard Butler, and his own.[7]

  1. ^ Adrian, Jack (15 December 2005). "Ted Allbeury – Obituaries". The Independent. Archived from the original on 26 May 2022. Retrieved 10 July 2019.
  2. ^ Winks, Robin W. (4 July 2019). "Of Spies And Traitors". The Washington Post. p. X1.
  3. ^ Britton, Wesley Alan (2005). Beyond Bond: Spies In Fiction And Film. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 159–. ISBN 9780275985561.
  4. ^ "Obituary: Ted Allbeury". The Guardian. 3 January 2006. Retrieved 10 July 2019.
  5. ^ Johns, Adrian (8 November 2010). Death of a Pirate: British Radio and the Making of the Information Age. W. W. Norton & Company. pp. 167–. ISBN 9780393068603.
  6. ^ "Criminals at Large – Review". The New York Times. 2 June 1974. p. BR357.
  7. ^ Johnson, Michael (2 January 2006). "Obituary: Ted Allbeury". The Guardian. Retrieved 10 July 2019.