They were soldiers, taking the fight to the enemy where he least expected it.
They were warriors. Brave, intelligent, resourceful. Living life in the shadows and helping to bring light to those living in the darkness of Nazi tyranny.
Glossary of Acronyms
ADF–Association des Dames Française
ATS–Auxiliary Territorial Service
BSC–British Security Coordination
CIA–Central Intelligence Agency
COI–Coordinator of Information
MO–Morale Operations
MU–Maritime Unit
R&A–Research and Analysis
SO–Special Operations
X-2–Counter Intelligence
CSP–Contact and Source in Place
FANY–First Aid Nursing Yeomanry
FBI–Federal Bureau of Investigation
FTP–Francs-Tireurs et Partisans
MI5–Security Service
MI6–Secret Intelligence Service (SIS)
NAAFI–Navy, Army and Air Force Institutes
NI–Navy Intelligence
NKVD–Soviet intelligence; translates to People’s Commissariat for Internal Affairs
ODA–Order of Departure of Agents
OSS–Office of Strategic Services
OSS London:
Communications and Propaganda
Country Units
R&A–Research and Analysis
Sabotage
SI–Secret Intelligence
SO–Special Operations
X-2–Counter Intelligence
RAF–Royal Air Force
SAS–Special Air Service
SD–Sicherheitsdienst, the intelligence branch of the SS
SIS–Secret Intelligence Service (MI6)
SLU–Special Liaison Unit
SOE–Special Operations Executive
SS–Schutzstaffel
STO–Service du Travail Obligatoire
USAAF–United States Army Air Force
WAAF–Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
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Index
A
Abwehr, 31, 68–69, 97, 183–184, 186
“Academy of Ungentlemanly Warfare,” 38
Acrobat network, 189
Affleck, Johnnie, 146, 207
Agazarian, Francine, 178, 180, 269
agents. See also NKVD agents; women agents; and names of specific agents
Hitler’s commando order against, 269
recruitment of, 7–9, 22–23, 81–83, 122–126
training of, 6, 37, 40–42, 47–50, 103–108, 112–113
transportation of, 52, 59, 143–144, 156
Air Ministry, 8, 51, 52, 59, 201–202
Air Movement Office, 169
airfields, 54–55, 58–59
“airmail” reports, 184
Aisner, Julienne, 184, 185
Alexander, Hugh, 93
Anderle, Pilot Officer, 170
Anderson, Murray, 211
Annette (code name). See Cormeau, Yvonne
Anschluss, 19
Antelme, France, 175–176, 194, 213
Arcadia (code name), 76
Arcos (freighter), 158–159
Arnaud (code name). See Rabinovitz, Adam
Arnault, Claude, 227
Artist network, 148, 179
Athenia (passenger liner), 130
Atkins, Vera, 8–9, 50, 72, 83, 100–102, 105, 143, 178, 193
on Christine Granville, 216
on concentration camp deaths, 190
Elizabeth Devereaux Rochester and, 144
postwar activities, 268
as senior intelligence officer, 108–112
Virginia Hall and, 33, 258
Yvonne Rudellat and, 265
Autogyro network, 111
Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS), 82
B
B Section (MI5), 3
Baden-Powell, Robert, 3
“Baker Street Irregulars,” 52
Bardet, Roger, 182, 183–184, 269
Baseden, Yvonne, 48, 211, 245–247, 267
Battle of Britain, 51, 154
Battle of Normandy, 231–233
Baxter, James, 75
Beaulieu Estate, 48–50, 103–105, 112, 161–162
Beck, Józef, 90, 92
Beekman, Yolande, 112, 205–206, 210, 213
Bell, Evangeline, 137, 138–139
Benet, Stephen Vincent, 122
Benoist, Robert, 237–238
Beria, Lavrenti, 157–158, 160
Berle, Adolf, 66
Bermuda, 86–87, 95–98
Bern, Switzerland, 81, 127–128
Bevan, Henry, 95
Biéler, Gustave, 206, 210, 213
Big House. See Beaulieu Estate
Biographical Records Division (OSS), 85–86
“black bag” jobs, 118
blackmail, 189
Blackman, Mike, 247–248
Bleicher, Hugo, 183, 184, 186
Blenheims (aircraft), 154
Bletchley Park, 26, 91, 93–95
Bloch, Denise, 112, 211, 237–238, 252, 253
Bloom, Marcus, 181
Bodington, Nicolas, 33
Boetticher, Friedrich von, 24–25, 62–64
bomb trains, 162–163
Bomber Command (RAF), 154
Bömelburg, Karl, 182–183
Boretzky, Emilie, 171–172, 173, 265
Boris III (king of Bulgaria), 70
Borrel, Andrée, 34, 110–112, 148, 150, 177–178, 182, 185, 190, 192
Brandenburger, 128
Bridger, John, 53
British intelligence. See Secret Intelligence Service (SIS); Security Service; SOE
British Security Coordination (BSC), 18, 65, 77, 113–114
Brooks, Tony, 234
Brousse, Charles, 115–116, 117–120, 263, 264
Browne-Bartroli, Albert, 204, 205
Bruce, David, 61, 70–71, 128, 140, 195, 231–233
BSC. See British Security Coordination (BSC)
Buckmaster, Maurice, 7, 42, 43, 72, 109, 111, 147, 166–167, 181, 203–204, 206, 210
biography and pre-SOE background, 5
Jacqueline Nearne and, 203–204, 219
network code names assigned by, 110
postwar activities of, 268
Vera Atkins and, 8, 100, 108
warning messages and, 176, 178–179
women agents and, 107–108, 141–142, 34–36, 195, 222, 202
Buxton, Edward, 61
C
Cabinet War Rooms, 29–30
Cammaerts, Francis, 190–191, 249–251, 257–258, 259–262, 267
Camouflage Development and Training Centre, 57
Camp X (Canada), 39, 86
Canada, 64, 130
Canaris, Wilhelm, 64, 68–69, 96
Captain Mosp. See Jepson, Selwyn
Carpetbaggers operation, 155
Carte (code name). See Girard, André
Carte network, 181–182
Castelnau-sur-l’Auvignon, 238, 240
Central Intelligence Agency. See CIA (Central Intelligence Agency)
Chamberlain, Neville, 26
Chantraine, Auguste, 203
Charlet, Valentine “Blanche,” 34, 266
Château de Pignerolle, 87
Chauvier, Louis, 243
Chavanne, Suzanne. See Leigh, Vera
Chef de terrain, role of, 143–144
Chilton, Henry, 15
Churchill, Peter, 34, 149, 181–182, 184, 207, 266, 270
Churchill, Winston, 2–3, 9–10, 12, 26, 60, 64, 94, 97, 114–115, 158, 198–199, 231
Donovan’s meetings with, 24, 30
Enigma messages and, 95
Roosevelt and, 36, 74, 87
SOE and, 38, 52, 53, 55, 66, 108
Stalin and, 116, 156–158
Washington visit of, 76–77
Churchill’s Wizards, 27–30
CIA (Central Intelligence Agency), 264, 268
cipher machines, 88, 91, 92–93
circuits, 6. See also networks; and names of specific networks
Clarke, Joan, 93–94
Claude (code name). See Déricourt, Henri
Clech, Marcel, 184
Col de Larche, 256–257
Colchester, Rozanne, 93
Collins, Stanley, 97, 98
commando order, issued by Hitler, 269
Communications and Propaganda (OSS), 133
Communist Francs-Tireurs et Partisans (FTP), 243
Coordinator of Information (COI)
Donovan appointed, 36–37
office of, 60–61, 70, 75
Cormeau, Yvonne, 49, 108, 212, 225–226, 238, 239
Cornioley, Henri, 201–202, 220, 242, 243, 271
coshes, 41
Counter Intelligence Office (OSS), 85, 133
counterfeiters, 27–28, 161
Country Units (OSS), 133
couriers, 6, 107–108, 177–178
cover stories, 49, 100, 103, 105, 139
criminals, use of former, 28, 161
cryptologists, 88, 92, 94, 96
Culioli, Pierre, 150, 151, 185, 264–265
Cynthia (code name). See Pack, Betty
D
Dalton, Hugh, 4, 52
Damerment, Madeleine, 175–176, 185, 194, 213
Das Reich (Second SS Panzer Division), 234–237, 244
d’Astier de la Vigerie, Emmanuel, 198
de Baissac, Claude, 148–149, 180, 186–187, 228, 247, 266
de Baissac, Lise, 112, 148, 150, 179–180, 18
2, 187, 219, 228–229, 247–248, 266, 269
de Gaulle, Charles, 4–5, 107, 161
de Guélis, Jacques, 34
de Vomécourt, Philippe, 270
de Wesselow, Roger Christopher, 42, 43–44