Authors: Ben Macintyre
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56
“Weed-killer goes into the lungs”: Ibid.
57
“took much interest”: J. H. Bevan, handwritten account, undated [April 15, 1943], TNA, CAB 154/67.
58
“I pointed out that there”: Ibid.
59
“In that case, we shall”: Ibid.
60
“General Eisenhower gives full”: Telegram IZ 1416, Received 1620, April 17, 1943, Freedom Algiers to Air Ministry, TNA, CAB 154/67.
Chapter Ten: Table-Tennis Traitor
1
“I get more and more optimistic”: Ewen Montagu to Iris Montagu, January 24, 1943, Montagu Letters.
2
“We ought by the time”: Ewen Montagu to Iris Montagu, November 13, 1942, Montagu Letters.
3
“Mincemeat is in the making”: Guy Liddell,
The Guy Liddell Diaries, 1939–1945
, vol. 2, ed. Nigel West (London, 2005), p. 45.
4
“Plan Mincemeat has been approved”: Ibid., p. 67.
5
“in close touch with many Russians”: TNA, KV2/599.
6
“an incurable anti-nationalist”: Ibid.
7
“facilities for sport were far greater”: Ibid.
8
“men of decidedly foreign”: Ibid.
9
“did not think Montagu would get”: Ibid.
10
“his association with the Russians”: Ibid.
11
“an active Fifth Columnist”: Ibid.
12
“he is always very keen”: Ibid.
13
“has a wooden hut”: Ibid.
14
“It does not seem desirable”: Ibid.
15
“whether this refusal is”:
Hansard Parliamentary Debates
, vol. 357, no. 23, March 14, 1940.
16
“I myself have registered”: TNA, KV2/599.
17
“most undesirable that he should”: Ibid.
18
“Intelligentsia lives in the”: TNA, HW 15/43.
19
“as a criminal conspiracy”: Ibid.
20
“known to be queer in any other way”: Ibid.
21
“The reason for our tentative interest”: Ibid.
22
“Bulgarian police authorities”: Ibid.
23
“Hanno-ball”: Ibid.
24
“certain net-stretchers”: Ibid.
25
“suspected of running an illegal”: Ibid.
26
“be using the channel of international”: Ibid.
27
“I know this all seems very trivial”: Ibid.
28
“I had no great faith in the records”: Ewen Montagu,
Beyond Top Secret Ultra
(London, 1977), p. 48.
29
“How is the table tennis going?”: Ibid., p. 49.
30
“That’s my communist”: Ibid.
31
“special examiners”: History of Operation Mincemeat, April 10, 1945, TNA, CAB 154/67.
32
“if the lash was gone”: Jesús Ramírez Copeiro dell Villar,
Huelva en la Guerra Mundial
(Huelva, Spain, 1996), p. 426.
33
“Mine were used for Major Martin’s”: Montagu,
Beyond Top Secret Ultra
, p. 149.
34
“an ordinary black Government”: TNA, ADM 223/794, p. 449.
35
“horribly phoney”: Ewen Montagu,
The Man Who Never Was
(Oxford, 1996), p. 145.
36
“the use of a chain to the bag”: Charles Cholmondeley, memo, February 10, 1943, TNA, CAB 154/67, p. 229.
37
“little or no wreckage floated”: TNA, ADM 223/794, p. 445.
38
“for simplification and for security”: Ibid.
39
“might have been the twin brother”: Montagu,
Man Who Never Was
, p.141.
40
“far more like”: Draft manuscript, Man, IWM 97/45/2.
41
“heartily disliked”: Montagu,
Man Who Never Was
, p. 160.
42
“odd psychological reaction”: Ibid.
43
“told to report to the intelligence”: N. L. A. Jewell, audiotape 12278, 1991, IWM.
44
“normal final training”: TNA, ADM 223/794, p. 445.
45
“Mincemeat sails 19th April”: TNA, CAB 154/67.
46
“enable the operation to be carried”: TNA, ADM 223/794, p. 445.
47
“In wartime, any plan that saved”: N. L. A. Jewell, audiotape 12278, 1991, IWM.
48
“the vital need for secrecy”: TNA, ADM 223/794, p. 450.
49
“packed, fully clothed and ready”: N. L. A. Jewell, operational orders, March 31, 1943, TNA, ADM 223/464.
50
“as the steel is made of light gauge”: Memo, March 31, 1943, TNA, ADM 223/464.
51
“held a super-secret automatic”: TNA, ADM 223/794, p. 450.
52
“we suspected the Germans”: Ibid.
53
“Lt Jewell was to impress”: Ibid.
54
“between Portil Pillar and Punta Umbria”: Ibid., p. 445.
55
“Every effort should be made”: N. L. A. Jewell, operational orders, March 31, 1942, TNA, ADM 223/464.
56
“the submarine could probably”: TNA, ADM 223/794, p. 445.
57
“the proposed use of a flare was dropped”: Ibid.
58
“on specially prepared slides”: Ibid.
59
“The container should then be opened”: Ibid.
60
“When the body is removed”: Ibid.
61
“near the body but not too near”: Ibid.
62
“the body and container”: Ibid.
63
“care must be taken that”: Ibid.
64
“Cancel Mincemeat”: N. L. A. Jewell, operational orders, March 31, 1943, TNA, ADM 223/464.
65
“Mincemeat completed”: Ibid.
66
“a pleasant time building up”: N. L. A. Jewell, audiotape 12278, 1991, IWM.
67
“making a life for the Major of Marines”: Ibid.
68
“I had the enjoyment”: Ibid.
69
“Mincemeat sails”: Chaucer to Goldbranson, April 15, 1943, TNA, CAB 154/67.
Chapter Eleven: Gold Prospector
1
“Adventure was once a noble”: Alan Hillgarth,
Men of War
(London, 1926), p. 34.
2
“a young man called Alan Hillgarth”: Evelyn Waugh,
Diaries
(London, 1995), July 1, 1927.
3
“steep hill all covered”: Daniel Buck, “Tales of Glitter or Dust,”
Americas
, vol. 52, May 2000.
4
“a large stone shaped like an egg”: Ibid.
5
“that took five hundred men”: Ibid.
6
“enough strong poison to kill”: Ibid.
7
“reputed by the local Indians”: J. B. S. Meadows, “Sacambaya,”
St. Barts Journal
, January 1929, p. 58.
8
“squarish man with conspicuously”: Buck, “Tales of Glitter or Dust,”
Americas
.
9
“record themselves on a photographic”: Report of Sacambaya Company, April 23, 1929, courtesy of Tristan Hillgarth.
10
“the definite location of a strong”: Ibid.
11
“men who had had considerable”: Ibid.
12
“Sacambaya is a poisonous place”: Ibid.
13
“protection against the often”: Ibid.
14
“across 20 miles of pretty”: Ibid.
15
“This is the furthest outpost”: Ibid.
16
“This was quite an undertaking”: Ibid.
17
“one case containing 200 lbs”: Ibid.
18
“100 feet into the hillside”: Ibid.
19
“A complete absence of fresh fruit”: J. B. S. Meadows, “Sacambaya,”
St. Barts Journal
, January 1929, p. 59.
20
“One of our party awakened”: Ibid.
21
“Claustrophobia brought on by”: Ibid.
22
“He has fallen seriously in love”: Edgar Sanders to Alan Hillgarth, January 5, 1929, courtesy of Tristan Hillgarth.
23
“either by the hotel people or the police”: Ibid.
24
“No body of men could have”: Report of Sacambaya Company.
25
“he doubled up as spy”: Jimmy Burns,
Papa Spy: Love, Faith and Betrayal in Wartime Spain
(London, 2009), p. 22.
26
“an intense bombardment which”: Captain Alan Hillgarth (then British consul in Palma), note on the surrender of Menorca, translated from Catalan by Tristan Hillgarth.
27
“a decisive German victory over Russia”: Alan Hillgarth, memo, July 13, 1942, TNA, ADM 223/478.
28
“very good”: Denis Smyth,
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
.
29
“equipped with a profound knowledge”: Ibid.
30
“privately about anything interesting”: Alan Hillgarth, memo, TNA, ADM 223/490.