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Authors: Richard Bassett
11
Brissaud, op. cit. p. 232
12
Jodl, quoted by Brissaud, p. 233
13
Cecil Parrott,
Memoirs
, London 1978
14
Amery, op. cit. p. 177
15
von Hassell, op. cit. p. 165
16
Abwehr Diary, IfZ
17
Amery Archive, Churchill College
18
Leo Amery,
Diaries
, 26-27 March 1941
19
D.C. Poole, âLight on Nazi Foreign Policy', Foreign Affairs XXV, October 1946
20
Hassell, op. cit. p. 162
21
ibid. p. 156
22
Padfield,
Hess
, chapter 30
23
Nordwestdeutsche Hefte
, 2 January 1947, quoting SS report on 20 July by Obersturmbahnführer Kiesel
24
Harold Nicolson, op. cit. 2 March 1941
25
According to Goredetsky,
Grand Illusion
, London 1995, Churchill was thinking of replacing Eden at the Foreign Office. See also âDocumenti Diplomatici 1940' Volume V, Lequio to Miny
26
Cave Brown,
Treason in the Blood
, op. cit. chapter 8, for Philby's views of circles in London âstill dickering with the Germans'
27
Padfield,
Hess
, op. cit. chapter 8, and Picknett, Prince and Prior,
Double Standards
, London 2003
28
Dragonoff, 13 December 1940, IfZ
29
IfZ 1084153 28 April 19411715-1745
30
PRO Prem 3 434/7 Sir A Clark Kerr and Mr Birse
31
Padfield,
Hess
, op. cit. p. 363
32
ibid.
33
von Hassell, op. cit. February 1941 entries
34
IfZ 1084153 28 April 19411715-1745
35
IfZ 1085/53
36
Stuart Smith to Tittmann, PRO HW14/10
37
Colvin, op. cit. p. 136
38
Liddell Hart,
The Other Side of the Hill
, p. 174ff, London 1948
39
PRO FO 371 26905/C4161
40
Schweinitz, quoted by Colvin, op. cit. p. 137
41
E. O'Halpin, âIntelligence and National Security', Volume 17 no 3
42
Weiszäcker, 4 April 1941, IfZ
43
Canaris, quoted by Brissaud, op. cit. p. 241
44
ibid.
45
ibid. p. 245
46
von Hassell, op. cit.4 June
Chapter Eleven
1
Spitzy, op. cit. p. 328
2
Reinicke, quoted by Brissaud, op. ci.t
3
Nicolson, quoted in Gorodetsky,
Stafford Cripps Mission to Moscow
, p. 118ff, Cambridge 1984
4
Milch,
Diaries
, 29 March 1946
5
Macdonald, op. ci.t p. 6; also Hellmut G. Haasis,
Tod in Prag
, Hamburg 2002
6
See
Heydrich Schlusselfigur des Dritten Reiches
, Dussel-dorf 1972
7
Pieckenbrock, quoted by Brissaud, op. cit.
8
Johnson, op. cit. chapter 6
9
Macdonald, op. cit. p. 108ff
10
See Gehlen, op. cit.
11
Macdonald, op. cit. p. 109ff
12
Abendschoen, quoted by Brissaud, op. ci. P. 256
13
ibid. p. 257
14
ibid p. 258
15
ibid. p. 264
16
Garlinski, op. cit. p. 88ff
17
private information
18
See chapter 14
19
Deacon, op. cit. p. 282
20
N.E. 14 May 1993
21
ibid.
22
See chapter 7
23 Dusko Popov,
Spy Counter Spy
, London 1957
24
I am indebted to the late Nicholas Elliot for confirming Menzies' authorship of the âoblique tribute'
25
See chapter 10, p. 216
26
Moravets, quoted by Brissaud, op. cit.
27
ibid.
28
Macdonald, op. cit. p. 155
29
Brissaud, op. cit. p. 272
30
ibid.
31
ibid.
32
ibid. p. 273
33
private information
34
Spitzy, op. cit. p. 328
35
Haasis, op. cit. p 132
Chapter Twelve
1
JA to author, 14 March 1993
2
Cave Brown,
Treason in the Blood
, op. cit. chapter 9
3
private information
4
Cave Brown, op. cit. p. 248
5
Herman Friedhoff,
Requiem for the Resistance
, London 1988
6
Cave Brown, op. cit. p. 248
7
ibid. p. 247
8
Fleischauer, op. cit. p. 56
9
Trevor Roper,
The Philby Affair
, p. 101, 1968
10
See chapter 11
11
Trevor Roper, op. cit. p. 103ff
12
Cave Brown, op. cit. p. 311
13
See chapter 6
14
See McCormack, op. cit.
15
ibid.
16
Sir Alexander Cadogan,
Diaries
, 25 March, PRO FO 800/293-4
17
Deacon, op. cit. p. 274
18
Colvin, op. cit. p. i6off
19
Hart, op. cit. Ifz
20
Deacon, op. cit. p. 282
21
Cave Brown,
Secret Servant
, op. cit. p. 6ff
22
Colvin, op. cit. p. 147
23
Cave Brown,
Treason in the Blood
, op. cit.
24
Gorodetsky,
Sir Stafford Cripps
, op. cit. p. 286ff
25
Abshagen, op. cit. p. 329
26
Cave Brown,
Secret Servant
, op. cit. p. 452
27
ibid.
28
For a brief outline account see Cave Brown, op. cit.
29
Prem 4/100/8
30
See Deacon, op. cit.
31
NAHW1/933
32
HW 1/1659 Turkish Ambassador Tokyo to FM Angora 2 May 1943
33
IfZ SD Berichten, November 1942
34
IZMPAA4 Nr 0014 IF 23.3.42
35
Fleischauer, op. cit. chapter 4
36
IfZ SD op. cit. November â August 1943
37
IfZ Spitzy 14 February 1978
38
Fleischauer, op. cit. chapter 4, and IfZ SD Berichten
39
PAA AA 23 January 1943
40
HW1/1659
41
Stahlberg, op. cit. p. 315
42
ibid.
43
Manstein/Fuchs,
Manstein: Soldat im zoten jahrhundert Militarisch-politische Nachlese
, Munich 1981
44
Svenska Dagblatt
, 30 April 1943
45
Gorodetsky, op. cit. p. 285
46
Stahlberg, op. cit. pp.320-55
47
IfZ Spitzy papers (Besymin 14 February 1978)
48
NAHWI/1320
49
private information
50
see Skorzeny, op. cit.
51
Brissaud, op. cit. chapter 19
52
see Michael Beschloss,
The Conquerors
, pp. 12-19 New York 2002
Chapter Thirteen
1
Canaris to Lahousen, quoted by Colvin, op. cit. p. 162
2
Colvin, op. cit. p 163
3
ibid.
4
Lamb, op. cit. p. 223
5
Beschloss, op. cit. p.
6
Lamb, op. cit. p. 222ff
7
Beschloss, op. cit. p. 13ff
8
Garlinski, op. cit. p. 129
9
Bentinck, quoted by Lamb, op. cit. p. 223
10
Knightley,
The Master Spy
, pp. 105-6
11
Lahousen interrogation, KVetc. op. cit.
12
Spitzy, op. cit. p. 348
13
Spitzy interview with Professor Deutsch, 23 May 1970, IfZ
14
Canaris quoted by Abshagen, Brissaud op. cit.
15
See Colvin, op. cit. p. 161
16
Leverkuen, quoted by Colvin, op. cit. p. 181
17
ibid.
18
OSS dispatch, 24 February 1944, Bern IN-3659
19
von Papen âHeroes Day Speech', February 1943, quoted by Leverkuen in
German Military Intelligence
, op. cit.
20
ibid. p. 24
21
private information
22
OSS RG 266/108A
23
Leverkuen, op. cit. p. 24ff
24
Lamb, op. cit. p. 224
25
WSC, 14 August 1943, quoted by Lamb
26
K. Sendtner, Die
Deutsche Militäropposition im ersten Kriegsjahr pub.lin die Vollmacht des Wissens, pp
. 470-72, Munich 1956. See also Harald Volcke,
Albrecht von Kessel, pp
. 268-78, Freiburg 2001
27
Chadwick, op. cit. p. 256ff
28
ibid.
29
Ciano,
Diaries
, 5th edition, p. 232, 1948
30
Kessel, quoted by Volcke, op. cit. p. 268ff
31
Goebbels,
Diaries
, 26 July 1943
32
Felix Gilbert,
Hitler Directs his War
, Oxford 1950
33
Interview with Karl Wolff,
Die Welt
, 6 March 1972
34
Chadwick, op. cit. p. 275
35
Adolph Berle, Memorandum to Cordell Hull, September 1941, re. conversation with Ralph Stevenson, quoted in the
Guardian
30 June 1958
Chapter Fourteen
1
Leverkuen, op. cit. p. 209
2
The bomb of British design was thwarted by arctic flying temperatures
3
ADSS 7, 439 and 458
4
Lamb, op. cit. p. 252
5
Private information
6
See Colvin, op. cit. pp. 165 ff
7
Deacon, op. cit. p 374
8
See Amé interview,
Corriere della Sera
, 16 April 1980
9
ibid.
10
Amé, quoted by Brissaud, op. cit.
11
see Schellenberg,
Memoiren
, Cologne 1956
12
Cave Brown,
Treason in the Blood
, op. cit. p. 312ff
13
private information
14
Mathias Wegner,
Ein weites Herz, p. 128ff
, Munich
15
Brissaud, op. cit. p. 315ff
16
ibid. p. 318
17
Cave Brown
Bodyguard of Lies
, p. 595, New York 1976
18
ibid. p. 599
19
ibid.
20
Brissaud, op. cit. p. 321
21
Schellenberg, op. cit. p. 204ff
22
Fischerhuette Archiv Toplitzsee Styria Austria
23
Mallet PRO 15 .12.1944 FO 371/35178; Prem 3/197/1
24
Protze, quoted by Colvin, op. cit.
25
Padfield, p. 58ff, op. cit.
26
Testimony, Walther Huppenkothen, Nuremberg IWT
27
This account is taken mostly from Bartz, op. cit.
28
Mueller quoting Rattenhuber, IfZ
29
Lunding, quoted by Colvin, op. cit. p. 210
30
see IHT 16 October 1950
31
Colvin, op. cit. p. 218
Conclusion
1
Gehlen op. cit.
2
Robert Skidelsky,
John Maynard Keynes
, p. 51, London 19 91
3
Leverkuen, op. cit. p. 198
4
Sothebys catalogue of Philby's papers, July 1994
5
Lamb, op. cit. p. 286
6
FO 371/391/37
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