January
19
/ 2021
Spanish researchers excavating Roman ruins on the tiny islet of Fraile (Isla del Fraile) now have a set of new targets: artifacts of espionage. A recently discovered WWI diary reveals the Spanish island was owned by an eccentric British spy, and the archaeologists will now be looking for signs of an undercover “British spy ring.” The hitherto unknown story of the aristocratic British spy, Hugh Pakenham Borthwick, has been revealed in a WWI diary telling how the mystery businessman spied on the Spanish from the islet of Fraile. The new research surrounding the secret diary has now confirmed decades of suspicions about the activities of the eccentric spy while he lived on the island off the southeastern coast of Spain
