by Nigel West
25 March and April 1945, undated
1 John Olday was arrested on a charge of incitement, having printed a circular letter addressed to troops on a press established in Philip Sansom’s studio. KV 2/3599; KV 2/3597; KV 2/3588.
2 Kingdom of Rags (London: Jarrolds, 1939)
3 Helmut von Rauschenplat was employed by the Political Warfare Executive. See his MI5 file, KV6/106.
26 11 June 1945
1 See In Durance Vile by John Brown (London: Robert Hale, 1981).
2 For William Joyce’s biography, see Haw-Haw by Nigel Farndale (London: Macmillan, 2005).
3 Norman Baillie-Stewart was convicted of espionage for the Germans in March 1933 and sentenced to three years’ imprisonment. His autobiography is Officer in the Tower (London: Leslie Frewin, 1967).
4 For John Amery’s biography, see Patriot Traitors by Adrian Weale (London: Viking, 2001).
5 A Spy Has No Friends (London: Andre Deutsch. 1952). For Seth’s SOE file, see HS9/1345. For his MI5 file, see KV2/378.
27 HARLEQUIN
1 Eiserne Kreuz First Class.
2 See Hans Scharf, Chapter 17.
3 The Caudron Affair was a reference to Bedaux’s director of his French companies, Jean Caudron.
28 GARBO
1 Aracelli Pujol contacted the assistant US naval attaché, Theodore Rousseau Jr, Born in Freeport, Long Island, Rousseau was a distinguished art historian who was educated at Eton and the Sorbonne. His post-war career was at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, and he died in December 1973, aged 61.
2 The Swiss agent was William Gerbers.
3 The W/T operator was Charles Haines.
4 Reinhard Spitzy released an autobiography, How We Squandered the Reich (London: Michael Russell, 1997).
Postscript
1 Having created the organisation in the first place, MI5 failed to retain the Radio Security Service, which became SIS’s Radio Intelligence Section in May 1941.
2 The Double Cross System in the War of 1939–1945 by J.C. Masterman (New Haven, Conn: Yale, 1972).
3 The Ultra Secret by F.W. Winterbotham (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1974).
4 MI5: British Security Service Operations 1909–45 by Nigel West (London: Bodley Head, 1981).
5 Strategic Deception in Wotld War II by Michael Howard (London: HMSO, 1981). KV4/83.
6 FORTITUDE: The D-Day Deception Campaign by Roger Hesketh (London: St Ermin’s Press, 1999).
7 See National Archives file KV4/83.