Captain Frank Edward Foley (1884–1958, Stourbridge) was a British secret service agent.

During the 1930's, Foley worked as a passport control officer in Berlin, as cover for his role as head of station for British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) in the city, acquiring key details of German military research and development.

However he is primarily remembered as a 'British Schindler'. He used his cover as a Passport Control Officer in Berlin during the 1920s and 30s to help thousands of Jews to escape from Nazi Germany. At the 1961 trial of leading Nazi, Adolf Eichmann, he was described as a 'Scarlet Pimpernel', risking his own life to save Jews threatened with death by the Nazis. Despite having no diplomatic immunity and being liable to arrest at any time, Foley went into internment camps to get Jews out, hid them in his home and helped them to get forged passports. Or, whilst pretending to do his job stamping passports and issuing visas, he would simply bend the rules allowing Jews to escape "legally" to Britain or to Palestine, which was controlled by the British in those days. One Jewish aid worker has estimated that he saved 'tens of thousands' of people from the Holocaust.

Further reading

• Michael Smith. Foley: The spy who saved 10,000 Jews. Hodder, 1999. ISBN 0340766034.