Polish Intelligence, 92–93
Polish Resistance, 217
Portal, Charles, 51, 52
Potter, Mr. See Jepson, Selwyn
Pound, Dudley, 158
PQ-6, 158
PQ-13, 158
Prosper (code name). See Suttill, Francis
Prosper network, 148, 176, 177–180, 182–184, 186–187, 192, 199
Putlitz, Wolfgang zu, 126
R
Rabinovitz, Adam, 181, 182, 184
radio operators. See wireless operators
Rado, Emma Crisler, 85–86
RAF, 9, 25, 45, 128, 199, 220, 243, 251
RAF 138 Squadron, 53–54, 72–73, 156
RAF 161 Squadron, 149, 156, 211
RAF Reconnaissance Unit, 146
RAF Tempsford, 55, 58, 98–99, 155, 162–163, 173, 227
Rake, Denis, 221–222, 223–224, 240, 241–242
Ravensbrück, 191–192, 252–253, 265, 266
Red Orchestra, 80
refractory cooler, 50
Regis. See Savy, Jean
Régis, Madame, 204–205
Renoir, Claude, 257, 258
Research and Analysis Office (OSS), 47, 75, 85, 133
reseau. See networks, in France
Reynaud, Pierre, 191
Rhineland, 19
Ringway Airfield (Manchester, England), 47
Rochester, Elizabeth Devereaux, 129–133, 140–142, 144–147, 207–209, 214–216, 264
Rolfe, Lilian, 252, 253
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 11–12, 18–19, 21, 36–37, 64, 74–77, 87, 117, 124, 126, 231
Roosevelt, James, 61, 73
Rose (code name). See Nearne, Eileen
Rosenberg, Vera. See Atkins, Vera
Rote Kapelle, 80
Route One, 164
Rowden, Diana, 112, 185, 188–190
Royal Air Force. See RAF
Royal Flight, 156
Rudellat, Yvonne, 34, 108–110, 150–152, 178, 185, 264–265
Rundstedt, Gerd von, 236
S
Sabotage (OSS), 133
Saint network, 196–198
Saint-Quentin, 206, 210
Salazar, António, 69, 75
Sansom, Odette, 148, 149, 180–182, 183–184, 207, 266–267
Sartorious, Carlos and Carmencita, 14
SAS (Special Air Service), 236–237
Savy, Jean, 212–213, 219–220
Schenck (German prison official), 260–261, 267
Scherbius, Arthur, 88
Schlesinger, Arthur, 122, 138
Scholar network, 211, 246
Scientific Self Defense (Fairbairn), 40
Scientist II network, 228
Scientist network, 186, 187
Scott, S. M. See Menzies, Stewart Graham
Second SS Panzer Division (Das Reich), 234–237, 244
secret agents. See agents; women agents; and names of specific agents
Secret Intelligence (OSS), 133
Secret Intelligence Service (SIS), 4, 18, 23, 26, 31, 49, 60, 91–92, 94, 96, 113–115, 140
agents, 125, 217
Betty Pack and, 89
presence in the Americas, 65–66
SOE-NKVD pact and, 158–162, 174
Security Service, 3, 18, 31, 60, 65, 81–82, 97, 140
Selborne, Lord. See Palmer, William (Lord Selborne)
Service du Travail Obligatoire (STO), 200
Shelley, Jack, 90, 91, 92
Sherwood, Robert, 73–74
Sicherheitsdienst (SD), 178, 182–184, 185, 186–187, 189–191, 193, 220, 266, 268
Sinclair, Archibald, 53
Sinclair, Hugh, 26–27
SIS. See Secret Intelligence Service (SIS)
Skarbek, Krystyna. See Granville, Christine
Skepper, Charles, 204, 213, 214
SLUs (special liaison units), 95–96
Smith, Harold, 133
Smith-Cumming, Mansfield, 23, 26
SOE, 27, 50–52, 107, 199, 258, 268
F Section (French Section) of, 4–7, 42–44, 110, 175, 176, 192, 234, 269
recruitment by, 7–9, 22–23, 81–83, 153
relationship with OSS, 77–78, 140, 155
research and experimental stations, 44–46
training schools, 6, 38–39, 41-42, 47–50, 71-72, 109, 156-161, 165
Solange (code name). See Damerment, Madeleine
Sologne, 151
Sorensen, Christian, 257, 258, 259, 261
Southgate, Maurice, 149, 199–200, 201–202, 203, 218–220, 253, 266
Soviet Union, 157–161, 217
Special Air Service (SAS), 236–237
Special Duties Squadron, 53–54, 155
special liaison units (SLUs), 95–96
Special Operations (OSS), 47, 120, 133
Special Operations Executive. See SOE
Special Training Centre, 6
Spellman, Francis Cardinal, 21
S-phones, 245
Spiritualist network, 251–225
Spitfires (aircraft), 1, 154
Stacey, David, 159, 161–162
Stalin, Joseph, 66, 156–157, 231
Starr, George, 181, 226
Station VI-A, 46
Stationer network, 149, 200–203, 218–219, 221
Stawell, William, 218
Steele, Arthur, 204–205, 214
Stephenson, William, 17–18, 21, 23–24, 36, 39, 64–66, 86–87, 91, 113
Allen Dulles and, 84–85
Betty Pack and, 114–115, 263
Donovan and, 31, 122, 125
in Normandy, 231
Pan Am Clipper flights and, 96, 97
Pearl Harbor attack and, 74–76
STO. See Service du Travail Obligatoire (STO)
Stonehouse, Brian, 34, 265
Stricht, Paul van der, 195–196
Sudetenland, 19, 89, 91
Sun Tzu, 2–3
Sunday Express, 3
Suttill, Francis, 111–112, 177, 178, 183, 185, 192, 264
Switzerland, 81, 127
Sykes, Eric, 162
Symington, Priscilla, 138
Szabo, Violette, 112, 236, 238, 252, 253, 267
T
Tanner, Jane, 139–140
Tardivat, Henri “Tardi,” 223, 254–255, 256, 270
Taylor, John, 105
Tempsford, Bedfordshire, 54. See also RAF Tempsford
Thame Park, 106
Thatched Barn. See Experimental Station 15 (SOE)
Thomas, Elizabeth (pseudonym). See Pack, Betty
Thorpe, Elizabeth. See Pack, Betty
Tietze, Georg, 171
Time, 11
Todt organization, 200
training schools, 6, 38–39, 41–42, 47-50, 71–72, 86, 156-161, 165. See also finishing schools; and names of specific training stations
Traugott, Lillian, 137
Travis, Edward, 93
Treviranus, Gottfried, 126
Truman, Harry S., 268
Tully, Grace, 36, 37, 75, 137
Tunney, Gene, 18
Turing, Alan, 93
U
U-boats, 87–88, 95–96
Unternehmen Paukenschlag, 87
USS Tuscaloosa (cruiser), 231
V
V-1 rockets, 63, 220
V-2 rockets, 63
Vanderbilt, William H., 122
Vercors plateau, 216, 249–251
Vereker, John (Lord Gort), 57–58
Verity, Hugh, 228
Vichy government, 34, 117, 118, 134, 136, 161, 200
Villa Cécile, 237–238
Villa Marie-Louise, 259
Vogt, Ernest, 193
von Clausewitz, Carl, 55
W
WAAFs, 29, 39, 82, 162–163
Waem, Max, 260–261, 267
Wake, Nancy, 134–137, 221–224, 240–242, 253–256, 270–271
Walters, Anne-Marie, 226–228, 238–240, 267
Wanborough Manor (SOE Training Station 9), 42–44, 109
War Office, 22, 43, 52, 140, 165, 180
Wardman Park Hotel (Washington, DC), 117, 118, 120
Warlimont, Walter, 20
Warsaw, Poland, 89, 155, 164–165
Washington Star, 61
Wehrmacht, 19, 91, 128, 130, 134, 243, 245, 250–251
Weis, Eleanor Grecay, 79–80, 81, 84–85, 138
Welchman, Gordon, 93
Wheelwright network, 226–227, 238–239
White Mouse. See Wake, Nancy
Williams, Donald. See Donovan, William Joseph
wireless operators, 6, 106, 107–108, 142, 212, 246
Witherington, Pearl, 201–202, 203, 219, 220–221, 242–245, 271
Wizard network, 212
women agents, 6–7, 27, 31–32, 72, 97–98, 123–124, 133–134, 269–272. See also agents; and names of specific agents
awards and medals received by, 264, 270, 271
in OSS, 47, 86, 137–140, 196–197
roles of, 99, 107–108
selection of, 21–23, 81–84, 99–103, 108–113
training of, 48–50, 103–107, 112–113, 148
Women’s Auxiliary Air Force. See WAAFs
Wooldridge, S. H. C., 103
Wrestler network, 221, 242
X
X-2 (OSS), 47, 85, 133
About the Authors
GORDON THOMAS is the author of fifty-six books. Several were Main Selections for the US Book of the Month Club, the Literary Guild, and the Readers Digest Book Club. He has received two Mark Twain Society Awards for Reporting Excellence. Seven of his books are major motion pictures, including Voyage of the Damned, which was nominated for three Academy Awards, and the TV movie Enola Gay. Experiences won the Jury’s and Critics’ prizes at the Monte Carlo TV Festival.
He holds an Edgar Award for Shipwreck. In April 2006 he received the Citizens Commission for Human Rights Lifetime Achievement Award for Investigative Journalism.
He has written extensively on all aspects of the work of the global intelligence community for over forty years.
His Gideon’s Spies: The Secret History of the Mossad became a major documentary, which he wrote and narrated for Britain’s Channel 4, and was later shown worldwide. It followed three years of research during which he was given unprecedented access to Mossad’s key personnel. The book has been published internationally and is in its seventh edition.
Thomas writes on intelligence matters for the Daily Telegraph (UK), Welt Am Sonntag and Bild (Germany), Wprost (Poland), and the Daily Telegraph (Australia). He has been a regular broadcaster on current affairs for the BBC and US networks and has lectured widely on the intelligence world.
GREG LEWIS is a journalist, documentary maker, and writer. He has written a dozen nonfiction books on a variety of subjects, including history, popular culture, and sports. He also works as a ghostwriter.
He has produced more than sixty documentaries for television and radio and has won major broadcast awards from BAFTA Cymru and the Guild of Health Writers UK.
His biography of Irish American prizefighter Tom Sharkey, I Fought Them All, which Lewis wrote with his wife, Moira Sharkey, won a Wishing Shelf nonfiction award.
His journalism has appeared in a variety of newspapers and magazines, including the Times (UK), Private Eye (UK), and Military History (US).
Greg lives in Wales with Moira and their two children, Evan and Caoimhe.