Target

by Roderick Bailey

  SOE training, 1;

  Colossus mission, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;

  capture and interrogation, 1, 2;

  death sentence, 1;

  death, 1, 2, 3, 4;

  reports of death, 1;

  handling of story, 1, 2, 3;

  fate of family in Italy, 1;

  traitor or hero?, 1

  Piccolo, 1

  Piercy, Captain Charles ‘Chappy’, 1

  Pierleoni, Renato, 1

  Pioneer Corps, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  Pius XII, Pope, 1

  poison pills, 1, 2

  Political Warfare Executive, 1, 2, 3

  Ponza, penal island, 1, 2, 3, 4

  Portal, Sir Charles, 1

  Pound, Sir Dudley, 1

  prisoners of war: British, 1;

  Italian, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Pritchard, Major Trevor (‘Tag’), 1, 2, 3

  propaganda: Salvadori’s plans, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6; Salvadori’s activities, 1, 2, 3;

  Fascist, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;

  Section D’s activities, 1, 2;

  Electra House, 1;

  anti-Nazi, 1;

  Lawrenson’s work, 1;

  SO1’s work, 1;

  impact of Tragino aqueduct raid, 1;

  Ottolenghi’s work, 1;

  Thornhill’s work, 1;

  Calosso’s work, 1;

  Vittorelli’s work, 1;

  SOE teams in Sicily, 1;

  effects of anti-Fascist, 1, 2;

  Sarfatti’s work, 1;

  Neda Solic’s work, 1;

  Picchi’s death, 1

  Purisiol, Rinaldo, 1, 2, 3

  ‘Quadrant’ conference, 1

  Queen Mary, 1

  Questura, 1

  ‘Quins, the’, 1, 2, 3

  Rahn, Rudolf, 1

  The Railway Gazette, 1

  Randall, Captain Gilbert, 1, 2, 3

  Rapp, T. C., 1

  Realdini, Giovanni, 1

  Recchioni, Emidio, 1

  Il Regime Fascista, 1

  Regina Coeli prison: Salvadori in, 1; Picchi in, 1;

  Serra in, 1, 2, 3;

  Adler in, 1, 2, 3

  The Remaking of Italy, 1

  Resistance, Italian anti-Fascist, 1, 2, 3, 4, see also Giustizia e Libertà, partisans

  Ribbentrop, Joachim von, 1

  Rio Grande, 1

  Robertson, Jack, 1

  Rocca, Raymond, 1

  Rome: Special Tribunal, 1; Lussu’s position, 1;

  US Embassy, 1, 2;

  public morale, 1

  Rommel, Erwin, 1, 2, 3

  Rooks, General, 1

  Roosevelt, Franklin D., 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Rosa, Leonida, 1, 2

  Roseberry, Major Cecil: background, 1; appearance, 1;

  character, 1, 2, 3;

  head of SOE Italian desk, 1, 2, 3;

  view of Lussu, 1, 2;

  view of Giustizia e Libertà, 1;

  Tridondani’s career, 1;

  view of Cairo’s plans, 1, 2, 3;

  view of ‘Washleather’ operation, 1;

  view of MI6, 1, 2;

  view of Mussolini assassination plan, 1;

  view of Farinacci assassination plan, 1;

  relationship with McCaffery, 1;

  Serra’s training, 1;

  Adler’s training, 1;

  Crawshaw’s position, 1;

  sacrificial mission, 1, 2, 3;

  Lussu diversion plan, 1;

  on SIM’s use of Adler’s wireless set, 1;

  SOE’s role in Sicilian invasion, 1;

  view of Salvadori, 1;

  view of Badoglio, 1;

  view of Bergonzoli, 1;

  on British rejection of Badoglio approach, 1, 2;

  view of Olivetti, 1;

  on Luzzi, 1;

  on Mallaby, 1;

  on Mallaby’s mission, 1;

  role in peace negotiations, 1, 2;

  on Mallaby’s exploits, 1, 2;

  on SOE’s contribution to Italian war, 1, 2, 3, 4;

  discovery of SIM deception, 1;

  OVRA deception, 1;

  view of Laurenti, 1

  Rosselli, Carlo, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  Rosselli, Nello, 1

  Rossi, Alberto, 1, 2

  Rossi, Giacomo, see Sarfatti

  Rossi (MI6 agent), 1

  Royal Air Force (RAF): dropping leaflets, 1; Malta withdrawal, 1;

  Swiss bombing error, 1;

  dropping supplies, 1, 2, 3;

  SOE role, 1;

  Mussolini bombing plan, 1;

  Mallaby mission, 1;

  Castellano’s journey, 1

  Royal Navy: Mediterranean forces, 1; Fleet Air Arm, 1;

  SOE role, 1, 2, 3;

  Malta submarine base, 1, 2, 3;

  NKVD assistance, 1

  Rusca, Luigi: contact with SOE as Badoglio’s emissary, 1, 2, 3, 4; War Cabinet’s rejection of peace proposals, 1, 2;

  SIM monitoring communications, 1, 2, 3;

  loss of contact with SOE, 1, 2;

  arrest and imprisonment, 1

  Rusconi, Emilio, 1

  Ruttledge, Alfred, 1, 2

  sabotage: Section D’s work, 1, 2, 3; SOE role, 1, 2;

  targets, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7;

  railways, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;

  shipping, 1;

  recruits, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;

  training, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;

  Tragino aqueduct, 1, 2, 3;

  Mexican radio station, 1;

  Italian factories, 1;

  New York docks protection, 1;

  Sicilian campaign, 1;

  supplies, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8;

  viaduct plan, 1;

  Tigrotti ‘successes’, 1, 2, 3, 4;

  Almerigotti’s ‘successes’, 1, 2

  safe houses: DF Section’s role, 1; Sarfatti’s mission, 1;

  McCaffery’s proposals, 1;

  provided by SIM, 1, 2, 3, 4;

  Paladino’s offer, 1

  Salerno: SOE landing, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6; Allied landing, 1, 2, 3, 4

  Salò Republic, 1

  Salsilli, Emilio, 1, 2

  Salt, Dame Barbara, 1, 2

  Salvadori, Joyce, see Lussu (Joyce)

  Salvadori, Max (Massimo Salvadori-Paleotti, ‘Max Sylvester’): appearance, 1, 2, 3; character, 1;

  family background, 1, 2;

  political views, 1, 2, 3;

  education, 1, 2;

  political activism, 1;

  arrest and imprisonment, 1, 2;

  meeting with ‘Mr Constable’, 1, 2, 3;

  Spanish activities, 1;

  first job for British, 1;

  teaching in US, 1, 2, 3, 4;

  contact with Fascist officials, 1;

  work with British, 1, 2, 3;

  work with Section D, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;

  in US, 1, 2, 3;

  career with SOE, 1, 2;

  as ‘Emmett Williams’, 1;

  Mexico missions, 1;

  report on Mafia, 1;

  accounts of plans to assassinate Mussolini, 1;

  in Mexico, 1;

  in London (1943), 1;

  SOE salary, 1;

  army commission, 1;

  Sicilian mission, 1, 2, 3;

  response to news of Mussolini’s fall, 1;

  post-Armistice career, 1;

  father’s greeting, 1;

  view of British SOE officers, 1;

  decorated, 1, 2;

  postwar career, 1

  Salvadori-Paleotti, Guglielmo dei Conti, 1, 2

  San Filippo brothers, 1

  Sandino, Domenico, 1

  Sanfilippo, Domenico, 1

  Sanminiatelli, Bino, 1

  Sanna, Major, 1

  Sansom, Odette, 1

  Sardinia: SOE plans, 1; Lussu’s background, 1;

  Lussu’s project, 1, 2, 3, 4;

  SOE mission, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;

  SIM using Adler’s wireless set, 1, 2;

  Plan ‘Barclay’, 1, 2;

  SOE
misinformation scheme, 1, 2, 3, 4;

  OSS misinformation, 1;

  Separatist Movement, 1;

  Piercy’s plan, 1;

  Verney’s mission, 1

  Sardinian Action Party, 1

  Sardinian Brigade (Lussu), 1

  Sarfatti, Lieutenant Giacomino (‘Galea’, ‘Giacomo Rossi’): appearance, 1; background, 1, 2;

  character, 1, 2, 3;

  education, 1, 2;

  army service, 1, 2;

  recruited by SOE, 1, 2, 3;

  training, 1;

  voyage to Malta, 1;

  wireless operator in Malta, 1;

  northern Italy mission, 1, 2;

  journey to Italy, 1, 2;

  in Milan, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;

  relationship with Klein, 1, 2, 3;

  news of Mallaby’s arrival, 1;

  journey to Switzerland, 1;

  McCaffery contact, 1, 2, 3;

  return to northern Italy, 1;

  work with partisans, 1;

  return to Switzerland, 1;

  postwar career, 1

  Sargent, Sir Orme, 1, 2

  Sarpedon, SS, 1

  Saunders, Sergeant Ernest, 1, 2

  Savoy Hotel, 1, 2, 3, 4

  Sbardelotto, Angelo, 1

  Scamaroni, Godefroy (‘Fred’), 1

  Scamporrino, Albino (alias Luigi Marino), 1

  Schirru, Michele, 1

  Schlotter, Paul, 1

  Schuster, Ildefonso, Cardinal Archbishop of Milan, 1, 2

  Schwerdt, Edmund, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  Scudeller, Giovanni, 1, 2, 3

  Scum of the Earth (Koestler), 1

  Seawolf (felucca), 1, 2, 3

  Il Secolo-La Sera, 1

  Section D: creation, 1;

  role, 1, 2; personnel, 1, 2;

  Salvadori’s work, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;

  Paris office, 1, 2, 3;

  rail sabotage plan, 1;

  activities, 1, 2;

  formation of SOE, 1, 2

  Selborne, Roundell Palmer, 3rd Earl of, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Selmone, Arnaldo, 1

  Senise, Carmine, 1

  Seraph, HMS (British submarine), 1

  Serra, Salvatore (‘Pisano’): appearance, 1; background, 1;

  character, 1;

  recruited by SOE, 1;

  SOE training, 1;

  Sardinian mission, 1, 2, 3, 4;

  capture, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;

  wireless messages, 1, 2, 3, 4;

  imprisonment in Rome, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;

  relationship with SIM, 1, 2, 3;

  missing, 1;

  reappearance, 1;

  account, 1

  Servizio Informazione Difesa, 1, 2

  Servizio Informazioni Militare (SIM): creation, 1; role, 1;

  personnel, 1;

  records, 1, 2, 3;

  counter-espionage section, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8;

  interrogation of Gallo and Zappalà, 1, 2;

  use of Rossi’s wireless set, 1;

  funds and supplies obtained from British, 1, 2, 3, 4;

  reports on Schwerdt, 1;

  control of SOE courier, 1, 2, 3, 4;

  co-operation with OVRA, 1, 2;

  employment of Klein, 1, 2;

  monitoring SOE communications, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7;

  ‘sabotage’ reports, 1;

  capture of Paladino, 1, 2;

  capture of Yugoslav students, 1, 2;

  handling of Sarfatti, 1, 2, 3;

  interrogation of Adler and Serra, 1;

  use of Adler’s wireless set, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;

  use of Serra, 1, 2, 3;

  capture of Rusca, 1, 2;

  Mallaby’s mission, 1, 2;

  SOE co-operation after Armistice, 1;

  records of Adler’s fate, 1, 2;

  revelation of Klein deception, 1, 2

  Seton-Watson, Hugh, 1

  Sforza, Count Carlo, 1

  Sias, Maresciallo Maggiore Virginio, 1

  Sicily: penal colonies, 1; SOE’s interest in, 1;

  Operation ‘Why Not’, 1, 2;

  Operation Washleather, 1;

  Mafia, 1;

  Allied preparations for invasion, 1, 2;

  invasion (1943), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;

  SOE mission, 1;

  anti-British feeling, 1

  Silone, Ignazio, 1

  Silvestri, Sergeant-Major Antonio, 1, 2, 3

  Simpson, Captain George ‘Shrimp’, 1

  Sinclair, Hugh, 1

  SIS, 1

  Skarbek, Krystyna (‘Christine Granville’), 1

  Slovene nationalists, 1, 2

  smuggling, 1, 2, 3, 4

  Snedden, Owen, 1, 2

  Snow, Captain Frank, 1

  SO1, 1, 2, 3

  SO2, 1

  Socialist Party, Italian, 1, 2, 3, 4

  Solic, Neda, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Sollima, Francesco, 1

  Somalia, 1

  Spanish Civil War, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Special Air Service, 11th Battalion, 1

  Special Boat Section (SBS), 1, 2,

  Special Boat Squadron, 1

  Special Branch, 1, 2

  Special Operations Executive (SOE): creation, 1, 2; organisational structure, 1, 2;

  leadership, 1, 2;

  DF section, 1;

  Baker Street headquarters, 1, 2, 3, 4;

  history, 1, 2;

  sources for history, 1;

  MI6 relations, 1, 2;

  Frodsham’s work, 1;

  recruits from internment camps, 1, 2, 3, 4;

  recruits from Pioneer Corps, 1, 2, 3;

  recruits from prisoners of war, 1, 2, 3;

  recruits from US, 1;

  recruits from Canada, 1;

  Lussu recruited, 1;

  recruits from East Africa, 1, 2, 3, 4;

  motives of recruits, 1;

  work in Italy, 1, 2, 3, 4;

  Italian desk (J Section), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9;

  Greek desk, 1, 2;

  British Security Coordination, 1;

  Lussu’s plans, 1, 2;

  training schools, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7;

  plan to assassinate Mussolini, 1, 2;

  plan to assassinate Hitler, 1, 2;

  Middle East and Mediterranean desk, 1;

  invasion of Sicily, 1, 2, 3;

  G Topo mission, 1, 2, 3;

  X Section, 1;

  Yugoslav Section, 1;

  activities, 1;

  Mussolini’s death, 1;

  wartime record, 1;

  results of deceptions, 1;

  post-Armistice record, 1

  Special Tribunal (Tribunale speciale per la sicurezza dello Stato), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Sporborg, Harry, 1

  Sportsman, HMS, 1

  Sproule, Paddy, 1, 2

  Stafford, David, 1, 2

  Stark, Freya, 1

  Starr, Lieutenant George, 1

  Stephenson, William, 1, 2

  Strauss (Austrian railway engineer), 1, 2

  Strazzera-Perniciani, Amedeo, 1

  Strong, Brigadier Kenneth, 1, 2, 3, 4

  Sunday Pictorial, 1

  ‘Sunrise’, Operation, 1

  Switzerland: neutrality, 1, 2; border with Italy, 1, 2, 3;

  Salvadori in, 1, 2;

  railways, 1;

  passports, 1;

  SOE office, see Berne;

  bombed in error by RAF, 1;

  SIM agents, 1;

  MI6 representatives, 1;

  OVRA’s work, 1;

  OSS representative, 1

  Sybil, HMS (British submarine), 1

  The Tablet, 1

  Tamoni, Luciano, 1, 2

  Taquey, Lieutenant Charles, 1, 2

  Taranto, naval raid (1940), 1

  Tarchiani, Alberto: friendship with Salvadori, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5; Section D meeting in Paris, 1, 2;

  in US, 1, 2, 3, 4;

  friendship with Lussu, 1, 2;

  Sbardelotto’s story, 1;

  Tigrotti plan, 1;


  political career, 1

  Taroni, Domenico, 1

  Taylor, General Maxwell, 1, 2

  Taylor, George, 1

  Taylor, Leading Seaman Frank, 1, 2

  Thame Park, 1

  Thornhill, Lt-Colonel Cudbert, 1

  Tigrotti: sabotage ‘successes’ reported to SOE, 1, 2, 3, 4; OVRA’s work, 1, 2, 3, 4;

  relationship with McCaffery, 1, 2, 3, 4;

  supplies from British, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;

  SOE plans, 1, 2;

  discovery of deception, 1

  Time magazine, 1

  The Times, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  Torretta, Francesco, 1

  Totis, Guerrino, 1

  Tragino aqueduct, 1, 2, 3

  Travellers Club, 1

  Traversi, Renato, 1

  Tribune, HMS (British submarine), 1

  Tridondani, Edouard, 1

  Tripoli, British entry, 1

  Tritone (Italian submarine), 1

  Triumph, HMS (British submarine), 1, 2, 3, 4

  Troina, fall to American troops, 1

  Tucker, Captain Richard, see Mallaby

  Tunis, Mafia exiles, 1

  Una, HMS (British submarine), 1

  Unione Siciliana, 1

  L’Unità, 1

  United States of America: neutrality, 1; SOE recruitment, 1;

  intelligence officers and Mafia, 1;

  Office of Naval Intelligence, 1;

  Rome Embassy, 1, 2

  El Universal, 1

  El Universal Gráfico, 1

  V., Dr, 1

  Vacca, Ettore, 1

  Valiani, Leo, 1, 2, 3

  Vanden Heuvel, Frederick (‘Fanny’), 1

  Vatican, 1, 2, 3

  Verdeu, Giovanni, 1

  Verney, Captain John, 1

  Vetere, Ralph, 1

  Vittorelli, Paolo, 1

  Vittorio Emanuele III, King, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  Völkischer Beobachter, 1

  Vulcania (liner), 1, 2

  War Cabinet, 1, 2, 3

  War Office: MI(R), 1; paperwork, 1;

  Picchi’s fate, 1, 2, 3;

  Logie’s position, 1;

  Italian recruits policy, 1;

  Press Department, 1;

  foreign currency supplies, 1;

  on Bergonzoli, 1, 2;

  Mallaby records, 1;