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13 “Sir W always wanted to hear”: After the Battle, 54, 1986.
14 “considered the objections”: John Julius Norwich, in introduction to Ewen Montagu, The Man Who Never Was (Oxford, 1996), p. xi.
15 “direct from Churchill”: R. V. Jones, Most Secret War (London, 1978), p. 217.
16 “consternation in security quarters”: Ewen Montagu “Postscript,” Montagu Papers.
17 “there could not be one law”: Ewen Montagu to John Godfrey, September 19, 1964, Montagu Papers.
18 “wholly contrary to”: Sir Harold Parker to EM, December 20, 1950, IWM 97/45/2.
19 “Any true account”: Ibid.
20 “there is no longer any”: Ibid.
21 “One would not think”: Ewen Montagu to Sir Harold Parker, November 7, 1950, IWM 97/45/2.
22 “I see no reason why”: Ibid.
23 “I forced Shinwell to agree”: Ewen Montagu to John Godfrey, September 19, 1964, Montagu Papers.
24 “sympathetically consider advice”: Ewen Montagu to Sir Harold Parker, April 2, 1951, IWN 97/45/2.
25 “it would be wrong to publish”: Ewen Montagu “Postscript,” Montagu Papers.
26 “shot off to Spain.” Ewen Montagu to John Godfrey, September 19, 1964, Montagu Papers.
27 “cabled back in a frenzy”: Ibid.
28 “The Foreign Office’s chief worry”: Ibid.
29 “using diplomats to lie”: Ibid.
30 “Further pressure was applied”: Ibid.
31 “the true means”: Roger Morgan, Beyond the Battle, 146, November 2009.
32 “rushed round to the Sunday Express”: Ewen Montagu to John Godfrey, September 19, 1964, Montagu Papers.
33 “wholly unexpected”: Ewen Montagu, Beyond Top Secret Ultra (London, 1977), p. 12.
34 “The request not to publish”: Ewen Montagu “Postscript,” Montagu Papers.
35 “so wildly inaccurate”: Ibid.
36 “controlled version”: Roger Morgan, Beyond the Battle, 146, November 2009.
37 “someone not under any control or influence”: Ewen Montagu to N. L. A. Jewell, January 11, 1953, EM collection.
38 “The return that the country”: Ewen Montagu to John Godfrey, September 19, 1964, Montagu Papers.
39 “The Express will submit”: Ewen Montagu to N. L. A. Jewell, January 11, 1953, Montagu Papers.
40 “with much black coffee”: Ewen Montagu “Postscript,” Montagu Papers.
41 “or should it be ‘Pam’”: Ewen Montagu to Jean Gerard Leigh, January 8, 1953, Montagu Papers.
42 “The powers that be”: Ibid.
43 “We don’t want to alter”: Ibid.
44 “a girl working in my section”: Ibid.
45 “Mincemeat is soon going”: Ewen Montagu to N. L. A. Jewell, January 11, 1953, Montagu Papers.
46 “My account has been vetted”: Ibid
47 “I felt that you ought not”: Ibid.
48 “I was most interested”: Jean Gerard Leigh to Ewen Montagu, January 14, 1954, Montagu Papers.
49 “merely say that you were”: Ewen Montagu to Jean Gerard Leigh, January 21, 1953.
50 “book, film rights, or other uses”: Charles Cholmondeley to Ewen Montagu, March 3, 1954, Montagu Papers.
51 “As you will recall”: Charles Cholmondeley to Ewen Montagu, March 3, 1954, Montagu Papers.
52 “Whilst the general situation”: Ibid.
53 “I do not feel that my own”: Ibid.
54 “the war’s most fantastic secret”: Sunday Express, February 1, 1953.
55 “I shall look forward”: Charles Cholmondeley to Ewen Montagu, March 3, 1954, Montagu Papers.
56 “Although I heartily disapproved”: Lord Louis Mountbatten, August 31, 1953.
57 “a good deal of persuasion”: A. Nye to Ewen Montagu, April 26, 1954, Montagu Papers.
58 “You and I don’t agree”: JCM to Ewen Montagu, August 31, 1954, EM collection.
59 “Uncle John blitzed me”: Ewen Montagu to Margery Boxall, October 30, 1950, courtesy of Fiona Mason.
60 “Your admirable Man Who Never Was”: John Godfrey to Ewen Montagu, September 13, 1964, Montagu Papers.
61 “an exploit more astonishing”: Sunday Express, February 1, 1953.
62 “managed to give the impression”: Thaddeus Holt, The Deceivers: Allied Military Deception in the Second World War (London, 2004), p. 370.
63 “an only son”: First draft of manuscript, IWM 97/45/1, folder #5.
64 “His parents were then”: Ibid.
65 “without saying what we proposed”: Ewen Montagu, The Man Who Never Was, p. 123.
66 “I gave a solemn promise”: Montagu, Beyond Top Secret Ultra, p. 145.
67 “My work is such that”: Ewen Montagu to “Ginger,” July 6, 1943, Montagu Papers.
68 “thrilling incidents which”: Ewen Montagu “Postscript,” Montagu Papers.
69 “appear to be grudging”: Mountbatten to Ronald Neame, April 29, 1955, IWM 97/45/1, folder # 4.
70 “I would like to make it clear”: Ibid.
71 “I would have no objection”: Ibid.
72 “There’s nothing true in it”: Federico Clauss, interview with the author, June 2, 2009.
73 “a derelict alcoholic”: Anthony Cave Brown, Bodyguard of Lies, vol. I (London, 1975), p. 282.
74 “the wastrel brother”: Ibid. I have not explored the theory that the body was a victim of the HMS Daster explosion, since this is most effectively demolished by Roger Morgan in his essay “Mincemeat Revisited,” Beyond the Battle, 146, November 2009.
Chapter Twenty-four: Aftermath
1 “absolutely devoted to one another”: Nicholas Jewell, interview with the author, June 24, 2008.
2 “General Mark Wayne Clark”: Terence Robertson, The Ship with Two Captains (London, 1957), p. 175.
3 “played a tiny part”: Ivor Leverton, letter to Daily Telegraph, August 13, 2002.
4 “redeemed”: Basil Leverton, interview with the author, September 8, 2009.
5 “developed an intelligence organisation”: Denis Smyth, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
6 “He walked several miles a day”: Ibid.
7 “the most unscrupulous”: Stafford, Roosevelt and Churchill, p. 109.
8 “quiet, cold-blooded war”: Ibid., p. 373.
9 “The Russians are cleverer than the Germans” Ibid., p. 378.
10 “Thus ends the story”: Ernest Sanders to Alan Hillgarth, June 28, 1948, collection of Tristan Hillgarth.
11 “Crazy Nolte is rich”: Ibid.
12 “I am sorry, but I am not”: Ian Colvin, The Unknown Courier (London, 1953), p. 101.
13 “His mind was not as it used to be”: Robert Jackson, Coroner (London, 1963), p. 192.
14 “Every time I tell a story”: Ibid., p. 201.
15 “His wife was the daughter”: Federico Clauss, interview with the author, June 2, 2009.
16 “He was always suspicious”: Ibid.
17 “admitted the possibility”: Colvin, Unknown Courier, p. 96.
18 “I take off my hat”: Ian Colvin, Sunday Express, March 8, 1953.
19 “extraordinary services”: Ibid., p. 261.
20 “the heroic death”: Tomas Harris, Garbo: The Spy Who Saved D-Day (London, 2004).
21 “News of the death”: Ibid., p. 280.
22 “If you find yourself in any danger”: Ibid., p. 277.
23 “Kühlenthal was overcome”: Ibid., p. 285.
24 “Kühlenthal made it abundantly clear”: Ibid., p. 285
25 “personally ordered”: Ibid., p. 286.
26 “remain patiently in his hideout”: Ibid., p. 287.
27 “he should obey instructions”: Ibid.
28 “Clandestinely”: Ibid., p. 288.
29 “a melting pot”: Dienz website, http://www.dienz.de/Inhalt/karl-erichkuhlen.html.
30 “he always tried to dress correctly:” Ibid.
31 “bold man to hounds”: Obituary, Telegraph, October 1, 2
008.
32 “fought through Italy”: Ibid.
33 “washing up, pottering about”: cited in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
34 “somewhat complicated by the fact”: Nigel West and Oleg Tsarev, Triplex: Secrets from the Cambridge Five (New Haven, Conn., 2009), p. 288.
35 “Captain [sic] Montagu is in charge”: Ibid., pp. 277–78.
36 “The German General Staff apparently”: Ibid., p. 288.
37 “When the [invasion] was launched”: Ibid.
38 “intelligent and agreeable, and an expert”: HAR Philby to unnamed recipient MI5, November 26, 1946, TNA KV2/598.
39 “information from secret sources”: TNA KV2/600.
40 “Middle East Anti-Locust Unit”: Tom Cholmondeley, interview with the author, October 1, 2007.
41 “His objective was the destruction”: G. F. Walford, Arabian Locust Hunter (London, 1963), p. 32.
42 International Council for the Control: Tom Cholmondeley, interview with the author, October 1, 2007.
43 “They are loathsome insects”: Walford, Arabian Locust Hunter, p. 11.
44 “intelligence duties”: Tom Cholmondeley, interview with the author, October 1, 2007.
45 “wide experience of deception work”: Ibid.
46 “He would not give information to anyone”: Alison Cholmondeley, letter to the author.
47 “He would take a revolver”: John Otter, letter to Daily Telegraph, August 15, 2002.
48 “invaluable work during the war”: Ewen Montagu to the Times, June 23, 1982, p. 12.
49 “The Turbulent Judge”: Sunday Mirror, July 5, 1964.
50 “Half the scum of England”: Daily Telegraph, February 1, 1957.
51 “A boy crook should have”: Sunday Mirror, July 5, 1964.
52 “discourtesy, even gross discourtesy”: Times, October 24, 1967.
53 “If a man can’t have a stroke of luck”: Sun, August 2, 1969.
54 “The public needs protecting”: Times, September 26, 1962.
55 “Few judges have trodden”: Sun, August 2, 1969.
56 “Perhaps I should have been more”: Henry Stenhope, The Times, August 2, 1969.
57 “extreme caution and extreme daring”: M. R. D. Foot, in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
58 “Dear ‘Pam’”: Ewen Montagu to Jean Gerard Leslie, December 31, 1980, Jean Gerard Leslie collection.
59 “one of the buttons I wore”: Ewen Montagu to John F. Meek, undated, IWM 97/45/1, folder #5.
60 “Keep a real sense of humour”: Ibid.
61 “There, at the end”: Beyond the Battle, 94, 1995.
62 “On 28th January there had died”: TNA ADM 223/794, p. 442.
63 “Glyndwr Michael”: Inscription on gravestone, Huelva cemetery.
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About the Author
BEN MACINTYRE is writer-at-large and associate editor of the Times of London. He is the author of Agent Zigzag, The Man Who Would Be King, The Englishman’s Daughter, The Napoleon of Crime, and Forgotten Fatherland. He lives in London with his wife, the novelist Kate Muir, and their three children.