Thomas Joseph Kendrick

Thomas Joseph Kendrick was a British intelligence officer whose career stretched from the early twentieth century into the Second World War. As SIS station chief in Vienna, operating under diplomatic cover, he ran intelligence networks and became involved in efforts that helped thousands of Austrian Jews leave after the Anschluss. He was arrested and interrogated by the Gestapo in 1938 before being expelled from Austria.

During the Second World War Kendrick organised clandestine listening operations in which German prisoners were secretly recorded at sites including the Tower of London, Trent Park, Latimer House and Wilton Park. Thomas Joseph Kendrick was a senior British Secret Intelligence Service officer who ran networks in Vienna and later organised covert listening operations against German prisoners in Britain.

Helen Fry’s Spymaster is Helen Fry’s biography of Thomas Joseph Kendrick, a British intelligence officer whose career placed him at the centre of European espionage before and during the Second World War. Helen Fry’s The Walls Have Ears traces the system from its early wartime experiments under intelligence officer Thomas Kendrick to its increasingly sophisticated use against senior German officers.