Julius Grant

Julius Grant (1901-July 1991) was a British forensic scientist and intelligence officer.

Grant made a career exposing forgeries on the basis of chemical analysis of paper, ink and other characteristics of written documents. Much of his work was for British Intelligence as illustrated in the Colin Wallace Clockwork Orange investigation. Well into retirement, Grant was called in to investigate possible forgery and to give expert evidence in court. In 1984 Grant's analysis of the Hitler Diaries confirmed within a week that it was a forgery. [ [http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/april/25/newsid_4464000/4464109.stm BBC 25 April 1983: 'Hitler diaries' published] ] . He was also called as a witness in the war-crimes trial of John Demjanjuk. [ [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0DE2DE1131F930A25751C1A961948260 New York Times "War-Crimes Trial, Horror and Humdrum" December 13, 1987] ]

In the autobiography of a former serving officer of Her Majesty's Secret Intelligence Service - MI6 the author Michael O'Hara wrote "Julius Grant to me and indeed to many law enforcement officers worldwide was arguably the world's most respected forensic scientist in his particular area of expertise. I liked the man personally and he I". [Michael O'Hara "Friends" Published 2006 ISBN:184728678X ]

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