Born in the city or Lodz in Russian-ruled Poland, William (a/k/a Wolf) Fisher immigrated to the United Kingdom, became a British subject, and distinguished himself serving on the Western front during World War I. Then his career took a more unusual turn, as recent research reveals. Marc Goldberg writes:
On December 8, 1925, the French secret police arrested three British subjects, John Leather, Oliver Phillips, and Fisher, along with two young French women. The Britons were accused of, and later convicted for, recruiting the two women to spy on various naval and aviation installations. Publicly, the British government denied all knowledge of the ring; privately the British ambassador to France, Robert Crewe-Milnes, wrote that the evidence implicating the men as British spies was “absolutely damning.”
The espionage ring collapsed when one of the two French accomplices, Marthe Moreuil, was arrested and confessed to her role in stealing secrets on behalf of Great Britain. Moreuil had infiltrated French air force and naval facilities, even qualifying as a parachutist to gain access. It also emerged in court that Moreuil was Fisher’s lover. The press referred to her as “Mademoiselle Foxtrot,” claiming that she secreted documents out of French bases in her corsets.
For his role in the plot, Fisher was sentenced to two years in prison.
Read more on Times of Israel: https://www.timesofisrael.com/uk-jewish-spys-pivotal-role-in-french-espionage-ring-revealed-after-95-years/