The Spy Who Loved: The Secrets and Lives of Christine Granville (61 page)

60
Buckmaster,
They Fought Alone,
p. 232.

61
TNA, HS9/612, Cammaerts, ‘Report on Christine Granville, known as Pauline’ (22.10.1944).

62
IWM, Sound Archive, 11238, Francis Cammaerts.

63
Fielding,
Hide and Seek,
p. 249.

64
TNA, HS9/612, Christine Granville, General Stawell, ‘Citation in respect of Miss Mary Christine Granville’ (10.12.1944).

65
TNA, HS9/258/5, ‘Francis Cammaerts’s Recommendation for the award of DSO’ (nd).

66
Bailey,
Forgotten Voices,
p. 231.

67
Fielding,
Hide and Seek,
p. 252.

68
Jenkins,
A Pacifist,
p. 204.

69
Bailey,
Forgotten Voices,
p. 212.

70
Jenkins,
A Pacifist,
p. 204.

71
Ibid., p. 206.

72
IWM, Francis Cammaerts papers, correspondence with Arthur Funk (9.12.1983).

73
Pawley,
In Obedience,
p. 48.

74
Masson,
Christine: SOE Agent,
p. 223.

75
Lyall,
Midnight Plus One,
p. 96.

76
IWM, Gubbins papers, 2/11, Gubbins ‘SOE’ (June, 1959).

77
Jenkins,
A Pacifist,
p. 209.

78
Ibid.

79
IWM, Francis Cammaerts papers, 3, Ray Jenkins papers (2002–5).

80
Pope, ‘Remembering Richard’, p. 120.

81
Ibid.

82
Daniel Huillier, interview, Vassieux-en-Vercors (July 2011).

83
Masson,
Christine: SOE Agent,
p. 222.

14: MISSION IMPOSSIBLE

1
TNA, HS9/612, MPP/PD/879 to D/CE.g. (9.11.1944).

2
Ibid., ‘Krystina Gi
ż
ycka (alias Christine Granville)’ (nd).

3
Noreen Riols, SOE Section F secretary, interview (October 2011).

4
Buckmaster,
They Fought Alone,
p. 232.

5
Masson,
Christine: SOE Agent,
p. xx.

6
Noreen Riols, SOE Section F secretary, interview (October 2011).

7
Helm,
A Life in Secrets,
p. 4.

8
Cole/Moss papers.

9
Masson,
Christine: SOE Agent,
p. 225.

10
Jenkins,
A Pacifist,
pp. 220–1.

11
Ibid., p. 216.

12
IWM, Gubbins papers, 4/1/4, Gubbins, ‘SOE’ (June, 1959).

13
Zamoyski,
Poland,
p. 328.

14
Wilkinson,
Foreign Fields,
p. 124.

15
Zamoyski,
Poland,
p. 328.

16
Walker,
Poland Alone,
p. 204.

17
Davies,
Rising ’44,
p. 249.

18
Ibid.

19
IWM, Gubbins papers, 2/1, ‘Talk to the Anglo-Polish Society in Connection with General Bór-Komorowski’s Memorial Evening’ (23.11.1966).

20
Bines,
The Polish Country Section of the SOE,
p. 200.

21
Davies,
Rising ’44,
p. 264.

22
Pravda
(6.8.1944), quoted in the Warsaw Rising Museum, Warsaw (2011).

23
IWM, Gubbins papers, 4/1/4, Gubbins lecture ‘SOE’ (1959).

24
Olson and Cloud,
Ko
ś
ciuszko Squadron,
p. 300.

25
Peszke,
The Polish Underground Army,
p. 124.

26
Ibid., pp. 124–5.

27
Walker,
Poland Alone,
p. 246.

28
Bines,
The Polish Country Section of the SOE,
p. 200.

29
Sgt Alan Bates quoted in Bailey,
Forgotten Voices,
p. 256; also Garlinski,
Poland, SOE and the Allies,
p. 192.

30
Garlinski,
Poland, SOE and the Allies,
p. 192.

31
IWM, Sound Archive, 8685, Annette Street.

32
Dodds-Parker,
Setting Europe Ablaze,
p. 182.

33
Jenkins,
A Pacifist,
p. 244.

34
Noreen Riols, SOE Section F secretary, interview (October 2011).

35
Walker,
Poland Alone,
p. 277.

36
Bines,
Operation Freston,
p. 16.

37
Ibid., p. 18.

38
TNA, HS9/612, ‘Folkestone – SOE sub-mission to Polish Home Forces’ (26.12.1944).

39
Ibid., addendum (26.12.1944).

40
Ibid., D/CE.G. to MPP (11.11.1944).

41
Statistics from the Warsaw Rising Museum, Warsaw (2011).

42
IWM, Gubbins papers, 2/11/8, Gubbins, ‘Poland’ (nd).

43
Pienkowska papers, Special Forces Club notes on speakers at Andrzej Kowerski’s memorial event (1989).

44
Bines,
Operation Freston,
p. 21.

45
TNA, HS9/612, SO2 ‘vetting forms’ (13.11.1944).

46
PUMST, correspondence Perkins/Tabor (23.11.1944).

47
TNA, HS9/612, MPP/PD/897 (14.11.1944).

48
Andrzej Kowerski-Kennedy quote in Masson,
Christine: A Search,
p. 220.

49
Duncan Stuart, official historian, Special Forces Club (December 2010).

50
Col Henry Threlfall, quoted in Bailey,
Forgotten Voices,
p. 258.

51
TNA, HS4/184, Col Threlfall’s reports on Air Operations from Mediterranean Theatre, Memo to SOM Liaison Staff (12.1.1945).

52
TNA, HS9/612, ‘Miss Granville, Christine. Financial Arrangements’ (1.12.1944); also HS9/612 (4.12.1944).

53
Wazacz,
No Ordinary Countess.

54
TNA, HS9/612, ‘FIN/FD/10332’ (25.11.1944).

55
Ibid., ‘MPF/GEN/473’ (2.12.1944).

56
Ibid., ‘Folkestone – SOE sub-mission to Polish Home Forces’ (26.12.1944); and ibid., ‘Operation Folkestone’ receipt (23.12.1944).

57
Kasparek, ‘Krystyna Skarbek’, unpublished manuscript (2011), p. 6.

58
Kemp,
No Colours or Crest,
p. 250.

59
Marks,
Between Silk and Cyanide,
p. 85; also Kemp,
No Colours or Crest,
p. 250.

60
TNA, HS9/612, MPP/PD/1021 (26.12.1944).

61
Ibid., ‘Folkestone – SOE sub-mission to Polish Home Forces’ (26.12.1944).

62
Bines,
Operation Freston,
p. 55.

63
Peter Solly-Flood quoted in Peszke,
The Polish Underground Army,
p. 177.

64
IWM, Gubbins papers, 2/11, Foreword to
The Silent and Unseen.

65
Wilkinson and Astley,
Gubbins and SOE,
p. 227.

66
Stanisław Kujawinski quoted in Bailey,
Forgotten Voices,
p. 264.

67
Pawley,
In Obedience,
p. 115.

68
Tucholski,
Cichociemni 1941–1945,
p. 260; also HS7/183, SOE History 131, Polish Section, ‘List of Operators dispatched to Poland from Great Britain and Middle East’ (nd).

69
TNA, HS4/311, L.dz.2986 (31.12.1944); see also Patrick Howarth, interviewed by Jeff Bines, August 2001.

70
Wladimir Ledóchowski, ‘Christine Skarbek-Granville’, p. 278.

71
Peter D. Stachura, ‘Towards Yalta and Beyond’, in Stachura (ed.),
The Poles in Britain 1940–2000,
p. 8.

72
TNA, HS9/612, Draft citation for Kristina Gi
ż
ycka (Christine Granville) (nd).

73
Wladimir Ledóchowski, ‘Christine Skarbek-Granville’, p. 281.

74
Bines,
The Polish Country Section of the SOE,
p. 188; also TNA, HS7/ 183, ‘History: Poland’ (nd).

75
Celt,
By Parachute to Warsaw,
p. 20.

76
Jenkins,
A Pacifist.

77
Wladimir Ledóchowski, ‘Christine Skarbek-Granville’, p. 281.

78
Binney,
Women Who Lived for Danger,
p. 104.

79
Martyn Cox, Peter Murray Lee, ‘Our Secret War’ interviews (nd).

80
Wladimir Ledóchowski, ‘Christine Skarbek-Granville’, p. 283.

81
Ibid.

82
Cole/Moss papers, correspondence between Harold Perkins and Christine Granville (15.3.1945); copy in TNA, HS9/612.

83
TNA, HS9/612, Granville to Perkins (25.3.1945).

84
Ibid.

85
Ibid.

86
Cole/Moss papers, Granville/Perkins (15.3.1945); copy in TNA, HS9/ 612.

87
Pope, ‘Remembering Richard’, p. 98.

88
TNA, HS9/612, Granville to Perkins (25.3.1945).

89
Binney,
Women Who Lived for Danger,
p. 107.

90
Ibid.

91
Fielding,
Hide and Seek,
p. 254.

15: SECOND-CLASS CITIZEN

1
Richard Usborne, ‘Our Secret Service’, in Howarth (ed.),
Special Operations,
pp. 225–6.

2
Stafford,
Secret Agent
p. 186.

3
IWM, Sound Archive, 26813, June Kerr Darton.

4
Margaret Pawley, Cairo-based FANY, and Ann Bonsor, FANY in Algiers, interviews (December 2010).

5
Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, O’Regan papers, Leonard Hamilton/Patrick O’Regan correspondence (27.5.1945).

6
Fielding,
Hide and Seek,
p. 254.

7
Pittsburg Post-Gazette,
Dorothy Thompson, ‘Major Questions Unanswered by Churchill’ (2.3.1945).

8
TNA, HS9/612, ‘Citation in respect of Miss Mary Christine Granville’ (10.12.1944).

9
Wazacz,
No Ordinary Countess.

10
The Telegraph,
‘Pearl Cornioley’, Obituary (26.2.2008).

11
TNA, HS9/612 (22.1.1945).

12
Ibid. (nd).

13
Jenkins,
A Pacifist,
p. 245.

14
TNA, HS9/612, ‘F/O C. Granville, Honorary Commission, WAAF’ (5.5.1945).

15
Ibid., ‘Miss Christine Granville’ (22.6.1945).

16
Cole/Moss papers, Granville to Gubbins (nd).

17
TNA, HS9/612, Perkins to Granville (15.3.1945).

18
Vera Long, Harold Perkins’s secretary, interviewed by Jeff Bines (2000).

19
Cole/Moss papers, Granville to Gubbins (nd).

20
TNA, HS9/612, ‘Citation in respect of Miss Mary Christine Granville’ (10.12.1944).

21
Ibid., Telegram 8140 (11.3.1945).

22
Ibid. (22.11.1945).

23
Ibid. (3.12.1945).

24
Cole/Moss papers, Michael JTP to Christine Granville (27.6.1945).

25
IWM, Cammaerts papers, ‘Conversation between M. Francis Cammaerts, DSO, and Professor David Dilkes at Le Pouget’ (17.9.2002).

26
Cole/Moss papers, Granville to Gubbins (nd).

27
TNA, HS9/612, ‘Christine Granville’ (25.9.1944).

28
Ibid., ‘Christine Granville’ (30.9.1944).

29
Cole/Moss papers, Granville to Gubbins (nd).

30
Fielding,
Hide and Seek,
p. 254.

31
TNA, HS9/612, ‘Miss Mary Christine Granville’ (26.1.1945).

32
Ibid.

33
TNA, HS9/612, ‘Christine Granville’ (19.6.1944).

34
Ibid. (27.11.1945).

35
Ibid. (22.11.1945), also (17.11.1945).

36
Marks,
Between Silk and Cyanide,
p. 593; also Wilkinson and Astley,
Gubbins and SOE,
p. 237.

37
Stafford,
Secret Agent,
p. 236.

38
TNA, HO382/44, Gi
ż
ycka Krystyna, ‘Application for a certificate of naturalisation’ (1.12.1945).

39
Cole/Moss papers, Lord Selborne/Home Secretary correspondence (3.1.1946).

40
Cole/Moss papers, Mr Chuter Ede/Lord Selborne correspondence (1.2.1946).

41
Cole/Moss papers, internal Home Office note (12.2.1946).

42
Cole/Moss papers, Perkins/Granville correspondence (nd).

43
TNA, HS9/258/5, File 8, AD/B to CD (9.3.1945).

44
Ibid., File 7, F to AD/E (27.3.1945).

45
Dorothy Wakely, personal letter (April 2011).

46
Ibid.

47
TNA, HS9/830/3, JS Nichols memo (29.6.1945).

48
Cole/Moss papers, ‘Legal permission to Contract a Marriage’ (1.8.1946).

49
Cole/Moss papers, Perkins/Granville correspondence (19.9.1946).

50
Picture Post,
Bill Stanley Moss, ‘Christine the Brave: Postscript’ (4.10.1952), p. 31.

51
Ibid.

52
TNA, HS9/612 (nd).

53
News Chronicle,
Cairo, Victor Azam, ‘Shyest Secret Agent’ (23.5.1947); also
Picture Post,
[Bill] Stanley Moss, ‘Christine the Brave: Postscript’ (4.10.1952), p. 31.

54
Cole/Moss, Perkins/Granville correspondence (nd).

55
Ibid.

56
Cole/Moss, Perkins/Granville correspondence (7.11.1946).

57
Ibid.

58
Ibid. (4.12.1946).

59
Ibid. (nd).

60
Ibid. (28.12.1946).

61
Ibid. (17.1.1947).

62
The London Gazette,
Third Supplement (16.5.1947).