Authors: Ben Macintyre
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55
“the only serious danger”: “Dowager” (Dudley Clarke) to “Chaucer,” May 20, 1943, TNA, CAB 154/67.
56
“legal or illegal exhumation”: Ibid.
57
“By the time that he had been”: Ewen Montagu to J. H. Bevan, May 28, 1943, TNA, CAB 154/67.
58
“Although no one in this world”: Ibid.
59
“Suggest unless unusual”: Ewen Montagu to Alan Hillgarth, Telegram 878, May 21, 1943, TNA, CAB 154/67.
60
“This to be done unless restrictions”: Ewen Montagu to Alan Hillgarth, Telegram 879, TNA, CAB 154/67.
61
“Please send me ordinary cipher”: Alan Hillgarth to Ewen Montagu, Telegram, May 23, 1943, TNA, CAB 154/67.
62
“suggest Consul place wreath”: Ewen Montagu to Alan Hillgarth, Telegram 878, May 21, 1943, TNA, CAB 154/67.
63
“as fast as possible”: Ibid.
64
“The purpose of this was not only”: TNA, ADM 223/794, p. 452.
65
“Sir, In accordance with instructions”: Alan Hillgarth to Ewen Montagu, June 6, 1943, IWM 97/45/1, folder #1.
66
“I have been asked”: Ewen Montagu to Alan Hillgarth, May 26, 1943, IWM 97/45/1, folder #1.
67
“Could you possibly procure”: Ibid.
68
“A reasonable reward of not more”: Ewen Montagu to Alan Hillgarth, Telegram 880, May 23, 1943, TNA, CAB 154/67.
69
“No action is to be taken”: TNA, ADM 223/794, p. 457.
70
“Insert the following entry”: Note to casualty section, May 20, 1943, IWM 97/45/1, folder #1.
71
“and, if so, where was it?”: Montagu,
Man Who Never Was
, p. 178.
72
“distinguished film and stage actor”:
Times
, June 4, 1943.
73
“severe loss to the British theatre”: Ibid.
74
“The only decent thing they can do”: Ben Macintyre,
Times
, Dec. 30, 2008.
75
“the first German Panzer Division”: Director of Naval Intelligence notes, May 31, 1943, TNA, ADM 223/353.
76
“arrangements for the passage”: Ewen Montagu to J. H. Bevan, et al., June 8, 1943, TNA, CAB 154/67, p. 64.
77
“strategic position well suited”: Ibid.
78
“completely reequipped”: Bennett,
Ultra and Mediterranean Strategy
, p. 224.
79
“It is now about half way between”: Ewen Montagu to J. H. Bevan, et al., June 8, 1943, TNA, CAB 154/67, p. 64.
80
“The present situation is summed”: Ibid.
81
“They raised (but did not pursue)”: Ibid.
82
“Mincemeat has already resulted”: Ewen Montagu, report, May 29, 1943, IWM 97/45/1, folder #2.
83
“I think that at this half way stage”: Ewen Montagu, “Draft Proposal for Compiler of MI5 History,” July 24, 1945, IWM 97/45/1, folder #1.
Chapter Twenty:
Seraph
and Husky
1
“moderately vile”: Terence Robertson,
The Ship with Two Captains: The Story of the “Secret Mission Submarine”
(London, 1957), p. 125.
2
“You are to act as guide and beacon”: Ibid., p. 124.
3
“for the first waves”: Ibid.
4
“had delivered his false information”: Ibid., p. 126.
5
“His force was to land in three parts”: Ibid., p. 124.
6
“He was really very short with us”: N. L. A. Jewell, Audiotape 12278, 1991, IWM.
7
“Do as good a job for us”: Robertson,
Ship with Two Captains
, p. 125.
8
“Discovery”: Ibid., p. 127.
9
“If substantial German ground troops”: Dwight Eisenhower to Winston Churchill, March 28, 1943, cited in Michael I. Handel,
War Strategy and Intelligence
(London, 1989), p. 437.
10
“The submarines would be less”: Robertson,
Ship with Two Captains
, p 125.
11
“The American High Command”: Lt. N. L. A. Jewell,
Secret Mission Submarine: Action Report of the HMS
Seraph (London, 1944), p. 106.
12
“a really de luxe experience”: Ibid.
13
“most exclusive spot”: Ibid
14
“The Wren Trap”: Ibid.
15
“None of the doors opened”: Robertson,
Ship with Two Captains
, p. 139.
16
“Bloody heap ain’t got no springs”: Ibid.
17
“could turn out a meal”: Jewell,
Secret Mission Submarine
, p. 100.
18
“E-boat on port quarter, Sir”: Robertson,
Ship with Two Captains
, p. 126.
19
“a clearly visible silhouette”: Ibid., p. 127.
20
“It was a ticklish moment”: Jewell,
Secret Mission Submarine
, p. 111.
21
“the fat would have been”: Ibid.
22
“undecided about her identity”: Ibid.
23
“I knew that would be a recognition”: Ibid.
24
“Down she went in a few seconds”: Robertson,
Ship with Two Captains
, p. 127.
25
“The captain of the E-boat”: Ibid.
26
“wonderfully conceited”: John Follain,
Mussolini’s Island: The Untold Story of the Invasion of Italy
(London, 2005), p. 14.
27
“an exceptionally small head”: Atkinson,
The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy 1943–1945
(London, 2007), p. 131.
28
“His knowledge of how to”: Follain,
Mussolini’s Island
, p. 13.
29
“military disaster”: Atkinson,
The Day of Battle
, p. 53.
30
“You cannot, you must not, be interesting”: Ibid., p. 34.
31
“the availability of aircraft and gliders”: Wilson to CIGS, May 16, 1943, TNA, CAB 154/67.
32
“gross breach of security”: Ibid.
33
“Colonel Knox may well have assisted”: “Chaucer” to “Dowager,” May 19, 1943, TNA, CAB 154/67.
34
“athletic, middle-aged, of medium height”: Terry Crowdy,
Deceiving Hitler: Double Cross and Deception in World War II
(London, 2008), p. 196.
35
“an agent of very high class”: Thaddeus Holt,
The Deceivers: Allied Military Deception in the Second World War
(London, 2004), p. 360.
36
“who had promised him”: Tomas Harris,
Garbo: The Spy Who Saved D-Day
(London, 2004), p. 316.
37
“on account of his linguistic abilities”: Ibid., p. 130.
38
“delighted with their new agent”: Ibid., p. 130.
39
“speculated that on account”: Ibid.
40
“steal some documents relating”: Ibid., p. 131.
41
“unmarried wife”: Ibid.
42
“officer who had been”: Ibid.
43
“pretend that the agent”: Ibid.
44
“would give the game away altogether”: Michael Howard,
Grand Strategy
(London, 1972), p. 91.
45
“not to be alarmed as the attack”: Crowdy,
Deceiving Hitler
, p. 206.
46
“received increasing reports”: Interrogation of Joachim Canaris, Kühlenthal file, TNA, KV2/102.
47
“was still regarded as the favourite”: Howard,
Grand Strategy
, p. 92.
48
“no measures were taken to reinforce the island”: Ibid.
49
“it was never possible for the Germans”: TNA, ADM 223/794, p. 455.
50
“Compared with the forces employed”: Ralph Bennett,
Ultra and Mediterranean Strategy 1941–1945
(London, 1989), p. 225.
51
“only half the supplies they needed”: Ibid., p. 231.
52
“well armed and fully organised”: Atkinson,
Day of Battle
, p. 53.
53
“an almost unbelievably”: G2 Intell notes, no. 18, August 1, 1943, TNA, WO 204/983.
54
“hot mustard”: Atkinson,
Day of Battle
, p. 54.
55
“It will be a hard and very bloody”: Follain,
Mussolini’s Island
, p. 37.
56
“If casualties are high”: Atkinson,
Day of Battle
, p. 71.
57
“May God be with you”: Ibid.
Chapter Twenty-one: A Nice Cup of Tea
1
“We are about to embark”: Follain,
Mussolini’s Island
, p. 69.
2
“all the winds of heaven”: Atkinson,
Day of Battle
, p. 67.
3
“The die was cast”: Follain,
Mussolini’s Island
, p. 69.
4
“It doesn’t look too good”: Atkinson,
Day of Battle
, p. 67.