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, 182, 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

• Defiant (aircraft), 154

• Denham Studios, 56

• Denise (code name). See Borrel, Andrée

• Denniston, Alastair, 92–95

• Déricourt, Henri, 180, 182–185, 193, 220, 268–269

• Diane (code name). See Hall, Virginia

• Dodds-Parker, Douglas, 218

• Dönitz, Karl, 87

• Donovan, William Joseph, 12, 17–21, 36–37, 76–78, 85, 98, 117, 120, 127, 137, 153, 199

  • Allen Dulles and, 80–81

  • on Evangeline Bell, 138

  • need for US intelligence service, 31–32, 68–70

  • in Normandy, 230–233

  • Office of the Coordinator of Information and, 60–64

  • OSS and, 122–127, 133–134, 155

  • Pan Am Clipper flights and, 86–87, 96–97

  • Pearl Harbor attack and, 73–76

  • postwar activities of, 268

  • visit to England by, 23–24, 27–30

  • visit to training schools, 71–72

  • women in intelligence services and, 47, 72

• double agents. See Déricourt, Henri

• Dowding, Hugh, 25

• Downes, Donald, 120

• du Tetre, Jacqueline. See Nearne, Eileen

• Dubois, Monsieur and Madame, 212

• Dufour, Jacques, 236

• Dufour, Maurice, 110

• Dulles, Allen, 80–81, 84–85, 126–129, 132, 268

• Dumont-Guillemet, René, 251–252

E

• Earle, George H., 70

• Eden, Anthony, 19, 97

• Elster, Botho, 245

• Englandspiel, 193

• Enigma, 88–90, 92–95

• Exciting Adventures of Wild Bill Donovan, The (comic strip), 61

• Experimental Station 15 (SOE), 44–46

F

• F Section (French Section), 4–7, 42–44, 110, 175, 176, 192, 234, 269

• Fairbairn, William, 39–41, 162

• Fairbanks, Douglas, 40

• Fairly, Paul, 113

• Falklands Islands, 96–97

• FANY (First Aid Nursing Yeomanry), 4, 39, 45, 49, 108, 168

• Farmer, John, 223–224, 240

• Farnham Castle, 57–58

• Fauberge, Annette. See Fromont, Francine

• Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), 21, 65, 77, 114, 126

• field agents. See agents

• Fielden, Edward, 155–156

• Fielding, Xan, 257, 258, 259, 261

• Fighting 69th, The (1940), 79–80

• finishing schools, 42, 46, 137–138, 148. See also Beaulieu Estate

• Fiocca, Henri, 135, 136–137, 256

• Fireman network, 211, 248

• First Aid Nursing Yeomanry (FANY), 4, 39, 45, 49, 108, 168

• Fleming, Ian, 66–68, 70, 71

• Fleming, Peter, 68

• Flying Fortresses, 245–246, 249

• Foot, M. R. D., 269

• Foote, Allan, 172

• Forces Françaises d’Intérieur, 258

• Foreign Information Service (COI), 73

• Foreign Office, 50–52, 66, 113

• forgers. See counterfeiters

• Forrestal, James, 231

• Fort Saint-Jean, 136

• Fournier, Henri, 223

• Frager, Henri Jacques Paul, 181, 182, 185

• Franco, Francisco, 15, 19, 69

• Free French, 4–5, 256

• Freelance network, 223

• Freeman, James, 123

• Fremdenpolizei, 127

• Frenay, Henri, 198

• French Communist Resistance, 170

• French militia. See Milice

• French Resistance fighters, 198–201, 206–209, 214–218, 223–225, 227, 230, 234–235, 238–247, 250–251, 253–259, 270–271

• Fromont, Francine, 159, 161–162, 169–170, 265

G

• Garrow, Ian, 136, 137

• Garry, Emile, 192

• Gaynes Hall (SOE Training Station 61), 145–147, 168

• Georges, Daniel, 170

• Gestapo, 35, 134, 171–174, 188, 196, 201, 210, 229–230, 252–253, 259–261

• Get Tough (Fairbairn), 40

• Gibraltar Farm, 54–55, 59, 98–99, 146, 169

• Girard, André, 181–182

• Glieres Plateau, 215, 216

• Goddard, Robert, 63

• Godfrey, John, 67–68

• Goetz, Josef, 176

• Goldberg, Arthur, 134

• Gomez-Beare, Salvador “Don,” 15

• Göring, Hermann, 63

• Gort, Lord. See Vereker, John (Lord Gort)

• Government Code and Cypher School, 93

• Grandclément, André, 187

• Granville, Christine, 216–218, 248–251, 257, 259–262, 267

• Grecay, Eleanor. See Weis, Eleanor Grecay

• Griffith, Aline, 137

• Gubbins, Colin McVean, 22, 24, 31, 59, 76, 77–78, 91, 105, 148, 159, 161, 199

  • Donovan’s visits and, 27–30, 71–72

  • Enigma machine and, 92–93, 94

  • hatred for Communism of, 156–157

  • Pan Am Clipper flights and, 96–98

  • postwar activities of, 268

  • SOE and, 1–8, 50–53, 107–108

  • Special Duties Squadron established by, 52–54

  • training schools and, 38–42, 46, 49

• Guernica, bombing of, 69

• Guyot, Raymond, 170, 174, 265

H

• Haft operation, 247–248

• Halifax (aircraft), 156, 163–168, 227, 247

• Hall, Virginia, 32–36, 150, 185, 195–198, 229–230, 258–259, 264

• Handley Page (aircraft), 156. See also Halifax (aircraft)

• Hannifin, Sue, 137

• Harratt, Peter, 230

• Harris, Arthur “Bomber,” 51, 154

• Heckler network, 230

• Henlein, Konrad, 91

• Henry-Haye, Gaston, 115

• Herbert, Mary, 148, 149, 179, 181, 186–188, 266

• Heslop, Richard, 146, 207, 214–215, 216

• Highlanders, 38–39

• Hindley, Marjorie, 46

• Hitler, Adolf, 19, 24–25, 31, 62, 75, 91, 130, 159, 200, 217, 269

• Hodges, Lewis, 156

• Home Office, 28, 161

• Hoover, J. Edgar, 63, 65, 76, 77, 126

• Hull, Cordell, 61

• Hunter, Mr. See Huntingdon, Ellery C.

• Huntingdon, Ellery C., 117, 118, 120

• Hurricanes (aircraft), 154

I

• Intrepid (code name). See Stephenson, William

• Inventor network, 184, 185–186

• Ismay, Hastings, 2

• Italian-Socialist Resistance, 128

J

• Jackson, Margaret, 4

• Jacob, Ian, 157

• Jacqueline (code name). See Rudellat, Yvonne

• Japan, 74, 96–97

• Japanese Americans, 76

• Jebb, Gladwyn, 51

• Jedburghs, 258, 259

• Jepson, Selwyn, 7–9, 72, 147–148, 222, 268, 269

  • candidate selection process of, 21–23

  • interviews conducted by, 81–84, 165, 180

  • Vera Atkins and, 99–102, 108–112

• Jeremy (code name). See Jedburghs

• Jockey network, 191, 249

• Johnson, Owen, 146, 147, 207

• Jones, H. E. See Hoover, J. Edgar

• Jones, Sidney, 184

• Jugendlager, 191

K

• Kämpfe, Helmut, 235

• Kerr, Philip Henry (Lord Lothian), 12, 18, 64

• Khan, Noor Inayat, 176, 185, 192–194, 213, 267

• Kieffer, Josef, 193

• Knott, Andrew, 50

• Koenen, Heinrich, 171, 172

• Koenig, Marie-Pierre, 241

• Köhler, Hermann, 171–172, 173, 265

• Korda, Alexander, 56

• Kulikowski, Edward, 89, 92

• Kurylowicz, Squadron Leader, 163–167

L

• Labit, Henry, 150

• Labor Branch (OSS), 134

• Lancasters (aircraft), 154

• Landes, Roger, 187–188

• Latour, Phyllis, 228–229, 247, 266, 270

• Laval, Pierre, 115, 118, 161

• Lee, Lionel, 175–176, 194, 213

• Lefort, Cecily, 190–192

• Leigh, Vera, 112, 184, 185–186, 190

• Lend-Lease Act (1941), 12, 64

• Liddell, Guy, 3

• limpets, 28–29

• Limping lady. See Hall, Virginia

• Lindbergh, Charles H., 10–11

• Lindemann, Frederick Alexander, 56–57

• Line (code name). See Bloch, Denise

• Lochailort, 6, 159–161, 165

• Loire Valley, 34, 151, 178, 242–243

• Long, Vera, 4

• Lothian, Lord. See Kerr, Philip Henry (Lord Lothian)

• L-tablets, 22, 99–100

• Lubienski, Michael, 90, 91

• Luftwaffe, 58, 156, 158–159, 173, 249, 250

• Lyon, France, 34, 35, 170

• Lypszyc, Szyfra, 159, 173–174

• Lysanders (aircraft), 52–54, 98

M

• MacArthur, Douglas, 62, 76

• Madeleine (code name). See Khan, Noor Inayat

• Maingard, Amédée, 200, 201, 203

• Maquis. See French Resistance fighters

• Maria (code name), 165–168

• Maritime Unit (OSS), 47

• Marks, Leo, 176, 223

• Marksman network, 207, 214

• Marriott, H. R., 5

• Marsac, André, 181–182, 183

• Marshall, George C., 62, 124

• Maskelyne, Evelyn Enid Mary, 56

• Maskelyne, Jasper, 55–59, 98

• Mayer, Edmund, 248

• Mayer, Percy, 248

• McCloy, John J., 198

• Menzies, Stewart Graham, 23–27, 30–31, 49, 51–52, 65, 76–77, 92, 157–158, 161

• MI5. See Security Service

• MI6. See Secret Intelligence Service (SIS)

• Milice, 34, 131, 134, 200, 214, 258–259

• Millar, George, 215

• Ministry of Economic Warfare, 8

• MO1 (SP), 2–3

• Molotov, Vyacheslav, 158

• Monin, Marie. See Hall, Virginia

• Monk network, 204–205, 213–214

• Montegerie, Marcelle. See Hall, Virginia

• Montluçon, 220, 253–255, 256

• Moon Squadron pilots, 54, 156. See also 138 Squadron (RAF)

• Morale Operations (OSS), 47, 85

• Morgan, Junius, 122

• Morgenthau, Henry, Jr., 63

• MOSP, 2–3

• Müller, Anna, 172, 173

• Müller, Hans, 172–173

• Munich Agreement, 92

• Murphy, James R., 117

• Murray, Henry, 125–126

• Musician network, 206–210

• Mussolini, Benito, 20–21, 75, 128

• “Mysterious Operations in Secret Places” (MOSP). See MO1 (SP)

N

• Nacht-und-Nebel-Erlass (Night and Fog Decree), 190

• Navy Intelligence (NI), 67

• Nearne, Eileen, 148, 202, 211–213, 251–253, 267

• Nearne, Francis, 200

• Nearne, Jacqueline, 147–150, 199–201, 203, 218–219, 251, 267

• Nekitina, Elene. See Noffke, Else

• networks, 6, 80, 99, 107, 175

  • Buckmaster’s code names for, 110

  • in France, 181, 184, 199, 211, 213

  • radio, 34, 74

• Newmarket Racecourse, 53, 98

• Night and Fog Decree (Nacht-und-Nebel-Erlass), 190

• NKVD agents, 157–162, 168–169, 171–174, 265

• Noffke, Else, 160–161, 170–173, 265

• Norman, Gilbert, 178–179, 192, 264

• Normandy invasion, 228–237

• Norville, Josette. See Nearne, Jacqueline

• Number 48 (code name). See Déricourt, Henri

O

• O’Brian, John Lord, 123

• O’Connell, Michael. See Stephenson, William

• Office of Strategic Services. See OSS

• Official Secrets Act, 2

• Olschanezky, Sonia, 190

• 138 Squadron (RAF), 53–54, 72–73, 156

• 161 Squadron (RAF), 149, 156, 211

• O’Neill, Ann, 67

• Operation Barbarossa, 156

• Operation Dragoon, 260

• Operation Drumbeat, 87

• Operation Overlord, 128

• Operation Torch, 117, 120–121, 134

• Operations Room (Gibraltar Farm), 146, 169

• Oradour-sur-Glane massacre, 235

• Orchard Court, 8, 100

• OSS, 71, 75, 76, 127, 199, 258, 268

  • London headquarters, 133–134

  • New York offices, 85

  • purpose of, 84

  • recruitment by, 85–86, 122–126

  • relationship with SOE, 77–78, 140, 155

  • women agents of, 137–140, 196–197

• O’Sullivan, Maureen Patricia “Paddy,” 112, 211, 248

• Ouspenskaya, Anna Semenovna. See Lypszyc, Szyfra

• Ovey, Esmond, 97

P

• P-17 convoy, 158

• Pack, Arthur Joseph, 13–15, 89, 113, 263

• Pack, Betty, 12–16, 89–92, 113–121, 263–264

• Pack, Denise, 14, 113, 263

• Pack, George, 13

• Pack, Tony, 13, 263

• Page, Eloise Randolph, 19, 47, 60–61, 73–74, 86–87

• Palmer, William (Lord Selborne), 52

• Pan Am Clipper flights, 86–87, 96, 97–98

• Park, Andrew, 8, 33, 100–101, 102

• Pat evasion line, 175, 185–186

• Pauline (code name). See Witherington, Pearl

• Pepper, John, 113–114, 116

• Pétain, Philippe, 107, 115, 118, 131

• Philby, Harold “Kim,” 104–105, 113, 202

• Phillips, William, 137

• Phono network, 192

• Physician network, 109–110, 111–112, 148

• pilots

  • French Air Force, 153

  • Polish Air Force, 153–154

  • RAF, 53–54, 72–73, 132

  • rescue missions by SOE, 142–143

• Pimento network, 228

• Pittman, Key, 10

• Plewman, Eliane, 204–205, 213

• poison pills. See L-tablets

• Polish Air Force pilots, 153–154

• Polish air squadrons, 155, 163–165

• Polish Army, 88–89

• 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 61 (code name). See Gaynes Hall

• 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