Secret Channel to Berlin · The Masson-Schellenberg Connection and Swiss Intelligence in World War II by Braunschweig, PierreTh -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Foreword Preface Acknowledgments 1. The “Masson Affair” Masson’s Interview Interventions in Parliament The Investigation by Supreme Court Justice Couchepin 2. The Tasks and Characteristics of an Intelligence Service 3. The Structure of Swiss Army Intelligence Before the 1939 Mobilization During World War II Internal Structure of Army Intelligence The Security Service 4. The French Bureau—Allied Section The Phony War Germany’s Campaign in the West From the Armistice to the Occupation of All of France From Germany’s Occupation of Vichy to the Allied Invasion of France From the Allied Invasion to Germany’s Capitulation 5. The German Bureau—Axis Section Six Sources of Information

1. Bureau Ha 2. Switzerland’s Military Attaché in Berlin 3. Officers Detailed to Germany 4. Private Persons Returning from Germany 5. Individual Diplomats 6. Border Patrols

Procurement Office 1 Outposts of Procurement Office 1 Informants and Agents Couriers and Consular Agents Conflicts between Army Intelligence and the Department of Foreign Affairs Lack of Coordination 6. The Initiator of the Connection Civilian Career Military Career 7. Early Stages of the Masson-Schellenberg Connection Meyer Establishes Contact with Eggen The Barracks Deal The Business Contact Turns into a Connection for Army Intelligence Meyer Puts Eggen in Contact with Masson 8. Extending the Connection: Masson Establishes Contact with Schellenberg Preliminary: Meyer Meets Schellenberg The Meeting in Waldshut

Reasons for the Meeting The Course of the Meeting Results

9. General Guisan’s Involvement in the Connection Guisan’s Meetings with Schellenberg in Biglen and Arosa

Reasons for the Meetings The Course of the Meetings

The Federal Council Intervenes

The General Is Reprimanded Masson Is Banned from Traveling Abroad

10. Test Case for the Connection: The Alert of March 1943 Warnings Received by Swiss Intelligence Bringing the Masson-Schellenberg Connection into Play Reactions among Swiss Intelligence Result 11. Assessment of the Connection What Did the Masson-Schellenberg Connection Accomplish?

Services Rendered to Switzerland by Schellenberg Services Rendered in Return by Masson What Were Schellenberg’s Objectives?

Overall Assessment 12. Epilogue Notes Available Source Material Bibliography List of Abbreviations