Double Cross

by Ben MacIntyre

19 All the parties involved: KV 2/858.

  20 Packing up Tricycle: KV 4/186, Diaries of Guy Liddell, May 10, 1944.

  21 to deduce the cover plan: KV 2/858.

  22 In the hands: Roger Hesketh, Fortitude: The D-Day Deception Campaign (London, 1999), p. 111.

  23 Why lead me up: KV 2/859.

  24 Anthony Blunt told me: KV 4/186, Diaries of Guy Liddell, May 10, 1944.

  25 by trick or by: KV 2/858.

  26 Jebsen was a mine: KV 2/859.

  27 There has been: KV 4/83.

  28 near-panic: Sefton Delmer, The Counterfeit Spy (London, 1973), p. 160.

  29 would undoubtedly put: KV 4/186, Diaries of Guy Liddell, May 10, 1944.

  30 This gives us: Ibid., May 18, 1944.

  31 After D-Day we: Thaddeus Holt, The Deceivers: Allied Military Deception in the Second World War (London, 2004), p. 565.

  32 Under interrogation: J. C. Masterman, The Double Cross System in the War 1939–1945 (London, 1972), p. 159.

  33 We do not know: KV 2/858.

  Chapter 22: Guest of the Gestapo

  1 erudite, imaginative: David Kahn, Hitler’s Spies: German Military Intelligence in World War II (New York, 1978), p. 424.

  2 jolly, easy, happy: Ibid. See also Anthony Cave Brown, Bodyguard of Lies (London, 1975), p. 497.

  3 the opinions held: Kahn, Hitler’s Spies, p. 496.

  4 To Newmarket for: KV 2/3639.

  5 a heavier burden: J. C. Masterman, The Double Cross System in the War 1939–1945 (London, 1972), p. 159.

  6 hide the facts: Nigel West and Juan Pujol Garcia, Operation Garbo (London, 2011), p. 151.

  7 Have found first-class: Roger Hesketh, Fortitude: The D-Day Deception Campaign (London, 1999), p. 121.

  8 under duress: KV 4/186, Diaries of Guy Liddell, May 15, 1944.

  9 report whether: KV 2/859.

  10 I feel a strong: KV 2/860.

  11 being introduced to: KV 2/858.

  12 had a paternal interest: KV 2/859.

  13 I wish to convey: KV 2/860.

  14 a written report: KV 2/859.

  15 arrangements for their: KV 2/860.

  16 the captive at the: KV 2/858.

  17 as Jebsen was a soldier: KV 2/860.

  18 brusque ultimatum: KV 2/861.

  19 One really ought: Christopher Hudson, “Architects of Genocide,” Daily Mail, January 19, 2002.

  20 produced a great: KV 2/860.

  21 having betrayed: KV 2/861.

  22 engaging in large-scale: KV 2/859.

  23 accused of working for Britain: KV 2/860.

  24 Communists, Marxists: Rebecca Wittmann, Beyond Justice: The Auschwitz Trial (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2005), p. 120.

  25 in a highly nervous: KV 2/860.

  26 caught a glimpse of: Dusko Popov, Spy/Counterspy (New York, 1974), p. 261.

  27 Violence is taboo: MI5, “History: Bad Nenndorf,” https://www.mi5.gov.uk/output/bad-nenndorf.html.

  Chapter 23: Bronx Gets Toothache

  1 There is still no: KV 4/83.

  2 remind the Germans: KV 2/72.

  3 functioning flawlessly: KV 2/464.

  4 The messages of Treasure: KV 4/83.

  5 I always cry in: Lily Sergueiev, Secret Service Rendered: An Agent in the Espionage Duel Preceding the Invasion of France (London, 1968), p. 207.

  6 I didn’t mean to: Ibid., p. 205.

  7 Sergueiew [sic] made a: KV 2/466.

  8 We see no particular: KV 4/186, Diaries of Guy Liddell, May 28, 1944.

  9 Treasure is in a position: KV 2/466.

  10 Envoyez vite: KV 2/2098.

  11 Hello, Monty: KV 2/3123.

  12 a little too early: KV 4/186, Diaries of Guy Liddell, May 28, 1944.

  13 had gone through: KV 2/3123.

  14 He was under: Thaddeus Holt, The Deceivers: Allied Military Deception in the Second World War (London, 2004), p. 562.

  15 more Nazi than: Reinhard R. Doerries and Gerhard L. Weinberg, Hitler’s Intelligence Chief: Walter Schellenberg (New York, 2009), p. 99.

  16 lateral shell fire: Charles Fenyvesi, “Japan’s Unwitting D-Day Spy,” Washington Post, May 26, 1998.

  17 This place is mine: Ignatius Phayre, “Hitler’s Mountain Home,” Homes & Gardens, November 1938.

  18 Our attitude cannot: Trial of German Major War Criminals, vol. 3, p. 387.

  19 What is your feeling: Holt, Deceivers, p. 566.

  20 It gave the first: Roger Hesketh, Fortitude: The D-Day Deception Campaign (London, 1999), p. 194.

  Chapter 24: Garbo’s Warning

  1 The south coast: Roderick Bailey, Forgotten Voices of D-Day (London, 2010), p. 38.

  2 Gather round me: Ibid., p. 48.

  3 unreal feeling: Ibid., p. 66.

  4 great crusade: http://www.eisenhowermemorial.org/legacyreport/military-legacy.htm.

  5 Do you realise: Tony Hall and Bernard C. Nalty, D-Day: The Strategy, the Men, the Equipment (London, 2002) p. 8.

  6 drew all the loose: Roger Hesketh, Fortitude: The D-Day Deception Campaign (London, 1999), p. 176.

  7 the impression of being: Thaddeus Holt, The Deceivers: Allied Military Deception in the Second World War (London, 2004), p. 550.

  8 destined for an attack: Hesketh, Fortitude, p. 190.

  9 self-trained military reporter: Tomás Harris, Garbo: The Spy Who Saved D-Day (London, 2004), p. 189.

  10 I conclude that the: Ibid., p. 188.

  11 According to a: Harris, Garbo: The Spy Who Saved D-Day, p. 188.

  12 sustained diet of high-grade: Hesketh, Fortitude, p. 187.

  13 Ostro, in a long message: KV 4/186, Diaries of Guy Liddell, June 5, 1944.

  14 He has told me: Nigel West and Juan Pujol Garcia, Operation Garbo (London, 2011), p. 154.

  15 All right Sergeant: Sefton Delmer, The Counterfeit Spy (London, 1973), p. 176.

  16 I don’t get it: Ibid., p. 177.

  17 We saw a lorry-load: Bailey, Forgotten Voices of D-Day, p. 192.

  18 improbable: David Kahn, Hitler’s Spies: German Military Intelligence in World War II (New York, 1978), p. 512.

  19 That the invasion: Holt, Deceivers, p. 579.

  20 I’m too old a bunny: Kahn, Hitler’s Spies, p. 513.

  21 inhuman wall of fire: Bailey, Forgotten Voices of D-Day, p. 269.

  22 His name might: KV 4/10.

  23 The invasion army: Montague Taylor, “Carrier Pigeons Ready,” Belfast Telegraph, June 6, 1944.

  Chapter 25: Second Innings

  1 Just keep the Fifteenth: Thaddeus Holt, The Deceivers: Allied Military Deception in the Second World War (London, 2004), p. 579.

  2 Unfortunately, by remaining: Roger Hesketh, Fortitude: The D-Day Deception Campaign (London, 1999), p. 148.

  3 Distraught by the: KV 2/3639.

  4 This makes me question: Nigel West and Juan Pujol Garcia, Operation Garbo (London, 2011), p. 161.

  5 I wish to stress in: Ibid., p. 162.

  6 the first of a series: Christopher Andrew, The Defence of the Realm: The Authorised History of MI5 (London, 2009), p. 305.

  7 attack across the Channel: Hesketh, Fortitude, p. 199.

  8 Fortitude requires a threat: KV 2/72.

  9 It is clear that: Hesketh, Fortitude, p. 199.

  10 I never like: Tomás Harris, Garbo: The Spy Who Saved D-Day (London, 2004), p. 188.

  11 After personal consultation: West and Pujol Garcia, Operation Garbo, p. 166.

  12 The report is credible: Ibid., p. 167.

  13 Only part of Allied: KV 2/3639.

  14 absolutely saved the: KV 2/72.

  15 I have some hard: Lily Sergueiev, Secret Service Rendered: An Agent in the Espionage Duel Preceding the Invasion of France (London, 1968), pp. 209–11.

  16 big scene from: Ibid., p. 209.

  17 Why did you: Ibid., p. 212.

  18 Ducky, that’s: Ibid., p. 213.

  19 I have destroyed: Ibid., p. 212.

  20 inviting the Germans … appetising dish: KV 2/72.

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p; 21 what they deduced: KV 2/3123.

  22 small calibre: Holt, Deceivers, p. 561.

  23 When the invasion: J. C. Masterman, The Double Cross System in the War 1939–1945 (London, 1972), p. 167.

  24 Their movement of: KV 2/72.

  25 impotent near Bordeaux: Elvira Chaudoir, personal memoir, collection of Robert Astor.

  26 We are prepared: KV 4/247.

  27 contain some: Joshua Levine, Operation Fortitude: The Story of the Spy Operation That Saved D-Day (London, 2011), p. 224.

  28 another landing: Holt, Deceivers, p. 582.

  29 ninety-nine per cent: Levine, Operation Fortitude, p. 285.

  30 twenty-three divisions: Holt, Deceivers, p. 581.

  31 It was almost: KV 4/186, Diaries of Guy Liddell, June 3, 1944.

  32 Patton’s army group: Holt, Deceivers, p. 582.

  33 reposed an almost: KV 4/247.

  34 has not been given: Holt, Deceivers, p. 589.

  35 Every additional: Terry Crowdy, Deceiving Hitler: Double Cross and Deception in World War II (London, 2008), p. 272.

  36 decisive mistake: Holt, Deceivers, p. 589.

  37 All this Patton: Levine, Operation Fortitude, p. 295.

  38 We knew that you: KV 4/247.

  39 unparalleled blunder: Crowdy, Deceiving Hitler, p. 272.

  40 I cannot overemphasize: Andrew, Defence of the Realm, p. 309.

  41 It seems from: KV 4/83.

  42 We were not very: Masterman, Double Cross System, p. 148.

  43 the greatest Test: Norman Holmes Pearson, introduction to Masterman, Double Cross System. 335 the most successful: Holt, Deceivers, p. 590.

  44 one of the most: Kim Philby, My Silent War (London, 1968), p. 17.

  45 With great happiness: West and Pujol Garcia, Operation Garbo, p. 183.

  46 I cannot at this moment: Ibid., p. 184.

  Aftermath

  1 studied not only by: KV 2/72.

  2 withdrawn air of: Mathilde-Lily Carré, I Was the Cat (London, 1960), p. 10.

  3 What I wanted most: Ibid., p. 132.

  4 harmless literary: Ibid., p. 219.

  5 committed to achieve: Ibid., p. 175.

  6 I don’t know how: Roman Garby-Czerniawski, The Big Network (London, 1961), p. 246.

  7 Okay, you win: Lily Sergueiev, Secret Service Rendered: An Agent in the Espionage Duel Preceding the Invasion of France (London, 1968), p. 214.

  8 I will be able: Ibid., p. 223.

  9 My joy has no: KV 2/465.

  10 unbelievable reality: Sergueiev, Secret Service Rendered, p. 7.

  11 We have in your personality: Nigel West and Juan Pujol Garcia, Operation Garbo (London, 2011), p. 200.

  12 The noble struggle: Ibid., p. 207.

  13 They cannot hope: Ibid., p. 204.

  14 His deeds and: Ibid., p. 206.

  15 selling: Emily Wilson, “The War in the Dark: The Security Service and the Abwehr 1940–1944” (PhD thesis, Cambridge University, 2003), p. 227.

  16 No one knew: West and Pujol Garcia, Operation Garbo, p. 216.

  17 My main pride: Ibid., p. 217.

  18 Bronx is the: KV 2/2098.

  19 It is difficult to: J. C. Masterman, The Double Cross System in the War 1939–1945 (London, 1972), p. 167.

  20 eagerly await: KV 2/2098.

  21 a way of making: Stella Rimington to Hugh Astor, November 6, 1995, collection of Robert Astor.

  22 I recall the adventure: Nigel West, “High Society Spy,” Mail on Sunday, May 7, 1995.

  23 I am getting fed up: KV 2/861.

  24 perfect foils for: Memoir of Mary Sherer, written by Prue Evill, July 18, 2011.

  25 signalise its performance: KV 4/10.

  26 There is no doubt: Wilson, “War in the Dark,” p. 228.

  27 whisky and concentrated: “Anthony Blunt: Confessions of a Spy Who Passed Secrets to Russia During the War,” Daily Telegraph, May 28, 2010.

  28 It has given me: Chapman Pincher, Too Secret Too Long (London, 1984), p. 351.

  29 respected judge: Obituary of Wulf Schmidt, Daily Mail, October 28, 1992.

  30 somewhat shifty: KV 2/278.

  31 He has no idea: KV 4/186, Diaries of Guy Liddell, October 22, 1944.

  32 sharp and ruthless: KV 2/278.

  33 arrest various Nazis: KV 2/410.

  34 Defend Berlin to: “US May Have Used Gestapo Chief as Cold War Warrior,” Sunday Times, April 8, 2001.

  35 a poor, half-Jewish: KV 2/3295.

  36 his hair had: Dusko Popov, Spy/Counterspy (New York, 1974), p. 261.

  37 until she attracted: KV 2/861.

  38 who wolves have: Saki, The Unbearable Bassington (1912; repr., London, 2008), p. 108.

  39 JOHNNY JEBSEN HUN: Communications from Lt Cdr Cumberlege, code 92, file 10046, Foreign Office files, FO 371/48935.

  40 my personal wish: KV 2/860.

  41 I do feel that: KV 2/861.

  42 My old friend Johnny: KV 2/860.

  43 She will be able: KV 2/861.

  44 We have no financial: KV 2/862.

  45 None of these people: KV 2/859.

  46 who would be: KV 2/860.

  47 what actually happened: KV 2/861.

  48 shot while trying: Popov, Spy/Counterspy, p. 263.

  49 She refuses to: KV 2/861.

  50 was liberated by: Sefton Delmer, The Counterfeit Spy (London, 1973), p. 162.

  51 Johnny Jebson: KV 2/860.

  52 kept the faith: Delmer, Counterfeit Spy, p. 164.

  53 There is nothing: KV 2/860.

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