Authors: Ben Macintyre
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31
“useful petard and a good war-winner”: Andrew Lycett,
Ian Fleming
(London, 1996), p. 158.
32
“the embodiment of drive”: David Stafford,
Roosevelt and Churchill: Men of Secrets
(London, 1999), p. 110.
33
“secret funds that were made available”: Kim Philby,
My Silent War: The Autobiography of a Spy
(London, 1968), p. 54.
34
“helped to feed the gallant”: Ibid.
35
“local police, dock watchmen and stevedores”: Alan Hillgarth Report, TNA, ADM 223/490.
36
“expendable parts of Hitler’s war machine”: Stafford,
Roosevelt and Churchill
, p. 92.
37
“took corruption for granted”: John Brooks, “Annals of Finance,”
New Yorker
, May 21, 1979.
38
“the last pirate of the Mediterranean”: Ibid.
39
“It would be a mistake to trust him an inch”: Stafford,
Roosevelt and Churchill
, p. 90.
40
“He has already had two German agents shot”: Ibid.
41
“an amphibious car”: “Spanish Help to the Germans,” records of NID12, TNA, ADM 223/490.
42
“There was not a Spaniard who would not”: Alan Hillgarth, report, TNA, ADM 223/490.
43
“The Cavalry of St George”: Stafford,
Roosevelt and Churchill
, p. 93.
44
“We must not lose them now”: Ibid., p. 96.
45
“his approval can safely be assumed”: Ibid., p. 100.
46
“German victory would mean servitude”: Donald McLachlan,
Room 39: Naval Intelligence in Action 1939–45
(London, 1968), p. 194.
47
“the Spaniard is xenophobic and suspicious”: Alan Hillgarth, report, TNA, ADM 223/490.
48
“I am finding Hillgarth a great prop”: Stafford,
Roosevelt and Churchill
, p. 96.
49
“a natural sympathy”: Alan Hillgarth, report, TNA, ADM 223/490.
50
“Handling Spaniards is a special”: Ibid.
51
“will be at a very definite”: Ibid.
52
“Even during the worst of the war”: Ibid.
53
“very reliable and well placed”: Ewen Montagu, report, August 21, 1945, TNA, ADM 223/794.
54
“to supply intelligence which”: Ibid.
55
“might compromise a very”: Ibid.
56
“The items were so chosen”: Ibid.
57
“Messig swallowed the stories”: Ibid.
58
“It was a delicate job”: Ibid.
59
“copies of all our telegrams”: Montagu,
Beyond Top Secret Ultra
, p.121.
60
“It seemed that the listening”: Ibid.
61
“Only by naval ciphers”: Alan Hillgarth, report, TNA, ADM 223/490.
62
“suborned by a woman in German pay”: Ibid.
63
“kept lists of everyone”: Burns,
Papa Spy
, p. 190.
64
“The Germans would have someone”: Tristan Hillgarth, interview with the author, January 13, 2009.
65
“very amateurish and inefficient”: Alan Hillgarth, report, TNA, ADM 223/490.
66
“Our deportment towards the German”: Ibid.
67
“The circumstances of his release”: Rankin,
Churchill’s Wizards
, p. 346.
68
“Wrangal Craker”:
Deceiving Hitler: Double Cross and Deception in World War II
(London 2008), p. 142.
69
“Herewith some photographs”: Rankin,
Churchill’s Wizards
, p. 349.
70
“sound in mind”: Crowdy,
Deceiving Hitler
, p. 143.
71
“he is just the type who imagines”: Ibid.
72
“It is time to pass from the defensive”: Alan Hillgarth to Edmund Rushbrooke, TNA, ADM 223/490.
73
“more or less any naval intelligence”: Ibid.
74
“the Axis was allowed with little”: Ibid.
75
“I have found a good man”: Ibid.
76
“All operations are, if I may say so”: Ibid.
77
“You and your staff have shown”: Edmund Rushbrooke to Alan Hillgarth, TNA, ADM 223/490.
78
“undesirable and unnecessary”: Ibid.
Chapter Twelve: The Spy Who Baked Cakes
1
“ubiquitous”: Tomas Harris,
Garbo: The Spy Who Saved D-Day
(London, 2004), p. 18.
2
“All classes were represented”: “Spanish Help to the Germans,” records of NID12, TNA, ADM 223/490.
3
“In the higher ranks there”: Ibid.
4
“Indeed, the reports went”: TNA, ADM 223/490.
5
“particulars on each”: Kim Philby,
My Silent War: The Autobiography of a Spy
(London, 1968), pp. 54–55.
6
“for a very large sum”: Ibid.
7
“precious source”: Ibid.
8
“very high indeed”: Ibid.
9
“I had to fight to get an extra £5”: Ibid.
10
“the cause of death”: Ian Colvin,
The Unknown Courier
(London, 1953), p. 42.
11
“examined hundreds of corpses”: Ibid., p. 41.
12
“Nothing happened in the Abwehr station”: MI5 interrogation of captured Abwehr officer Hans Joachim Rudolph, in Kühlenthal MI5 files, TNA, KV2/102.
13
“fleshy, boneless cheeks”: Ibid.
14
“curved hawk-like”: Ibid.
15
“blue piercing eyes”: Ibid.
16
“a dark brown French four-seater”: Ibid.
17
“carefully manicured”: Ibid.
18
“a very efficient, ambitious”: Harris,
Garbo
, p. 69
19
“contrived to push Leissner”: TNA, KV2/102.
20
“became a mere figurehead.: Ibid.
21
“He was an extremely able man”: Ibid.
22
“the esteem and reputation”: Ibid.
23
“by far the best man in Group I”: Ibid.
24
“sent a personal message”: Ibid.
25
“extremely busy and that his visit”: Harris,
Garbo
, p. 46.
26
“careful not to underestimate”: Ibid., p. 50.
27
“would be a very long war”: Ibid., p. Ibid.
28
“There are people in Glasgow”: Ibid., p. 58.
29
“We have absolute trust in you”: Ibid., p. 250.
30
“My dear friend and comrade”: Ibid., p. 257.
31
“the democratic-Jewish-Masonic”: Ibid.
32
“England must be taken by arms”: Ibid., p. 237.
33
“With a raised arm I end this letter”: Ibid.
34
“His characteristic German lack”: Ibid., p. 70.
35
“the star turn”: Ibid., p. 128.
36
“With good wishes to Odette”: Ibid.
37
“I did the lettering myself”: Ibid.
38
“made cakes which were unpleasant”: Ibid.
39
“vast information” Ibid.
40
“As a keen and efficient officer”: Ibid., p. 69.
41
“We had the satisfaction of knowing”: Ibid.
42
“the many incredible things we ask”: Ibid., p. 95.
43
“the more sensational the reports”: Ibid., p. 146.
44
“In some cases where messages”: Ibid.
45
“Felipe had become our mouthpiece”: Ibid., p. 72.
46
“an invaluable channel”: Ibid.
47
“conviction that the Isle of Man”: Most Secret Source report, TNA, KV2/102.
48
“invented by Felipe himself”: TNA, KV2/102.
49
“The information provided”: TNA, KV2/102.
50
“one of the people who make up”: Guy Liddell,
The Guy Liddell Diaries, 1939–1945
, ed. Nigel West (London, 2005), March 10, 1944, p. 179.
51
“There are officers in Spain”: Statement of Josef Ledebur-Wichelin at Camp 020, November 25, 1944, TNA, KV2/102.
52
“leaving a good job as manager”: TNA, KV2/102
53
“he could not serve in the Army”: TNA, KV2/102.
54
“Aryanised”: TNA, KV2/102.
55
“He has been created an Aryan”: Telegram Berlin to Madrid, July 18, 1941, TNA, KV2/102.
56
“since there appeared to be no”: Telegram Berlin to Madrid, May 4, 1941, TNA, KV2/102.