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One of Britain's most influential World War II spies was arrested in Madrid for cross-dressing, files released by the National Archives show.
Lieutenant Colonel Dudley Clarke was undercover as a correspondent for the Times when detained in the Spanish capital in 1941.
He was "dressed, down to a brassiere, as a woman", reports a letter from the British Embassy to the Foreign Office.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22629712