British Security Co-ordination.

Rare yellow brass king's crown cap badge with two loops and makers details for Scully Montreal to the reverse. The tri-part title scroll across a crowned wreath of laurel. Set up in New York in 1941 ostensibly to protect British shipping and war supplies,although its real task was stealing codes and mail from foreign embassies and training Jugoslav-Canadians for clandestine work in Jugoslavia. After 1942 members attended the spy school in Oshawa Toronto along with their American counterparts from the O.S.S. [See L.Whittaker's Book - " Private Armies " for more information.]

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