Suspicion
In January 1941, Ter Braak was contacted by the Food Office about his ration card, which its records showed had been issued to someone else. This was because the card had been supplied by the Abwehr using numbers given by the double agent SNOW (Arthur Owens). Ter Braak evidently suspected that he would be detected, and told his landlady that he had to leave for London; in fact, he obtained a new set of lodgings again in Cambridge.
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