While working as a spy just before World War II, Frank Foley bent the rules to enable thousands of Jews to escape persecution in Germany. Foley’s cover remained solid while he helped with various rescues and military intelligence operations. This short, quiet, bespeckled man passed under the radar of his enemies.
Foley was born in Highbridge, Somerset, England on Nov. 24, 1884 to an engineer father. The boy, who was raised Catholic, studied at St. Joseph’s Roman Catholic School and Stonyhurst College in his early years. He wanted to become a priest initially and briefly studied at a Roman Catholic seminary in Poitiers.
