Career
Early Life and Military Fletcher served in the British Army (1941-1948) in the Far East, the Middle East and the British Army of the Rhine. He subsequently worked as military advisor on Joan Littlewood"s Oh, What a Lovely War!. He became a journalist, author and lecturer and wrote two plays.
Fletcher contested Wycombe in 1955.
The seat was abolished that year in boundary changes. He was revealed as a spy for the Soviet Union according to the records furnished by Vasili Mitrokhin, who arrived in the West after the Cold War.
The widow of the late Labour Member of Parliament angrily denied the accusation that he was a Russian spy and claimed that he had, in fact, carried out missions for MI6.