The Royal Artillery is leaving Woolwich and London. As a legacy of this very long association London has been left with the Firepower Museum and Arsenal Football Club. Just before the Second World War Woolwich Arsenal was the victim of spies. The story centres on one Olga Gray a respectable middle class lady from Ealing with left- wing views. She worked on a Pacifist newspaper and was a member of the 'Friends of the Soviet Union'. Moscow spymasters recruited her as an agent and she worked at assisting Indian Communists.
In 1937 she was asked to rent a house in Holland Park This was to be used as a Soviet safe house. Plans for a new navy gun were stolen from Woolwich Arsenal and taken to Holland Park to be photographed
Unfortunately for the Communists Olga was a British double agent and her information smashed the Woolwich Arsenal spy ring.
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