Authors: Ben Macintyre
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Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory (59 page)
7
“very attractive”: Draft of Operation Mincemeat report EM and CC, April 27, 1943, IWM 97/45/1, folder #2.
8
“The more attractive girls in”: Montagu,
Man Who Never Was
, p. 152.
9
“I think he had every intention”: Jean Gerard Leigh, interview with the author, March 5, 2008.
10
“The swimming there was horrible”: Ibid.
11
“quite a collection”: Montagu,
Man Who Never Was
, p. 152.
12
“Uncle John gave specific orders”: Pat Davies (née Trehearne), interview with the author, October 4, 2009.
13
“We were all rather jealous”: Ibid.
14
“I knew it was going to be planted”: Jean Gerard Leigh, interview with the author, March 5, 2008.
15
“Has anybody else got that”: Ibid.
16
“I never realised how lonely”: Ewen Montagu to Iris Montagu, August 17, 1941, Montagu Letters.
17
“How ultra-happy our life was”: Ewen Montagu to Iris Montagu, December 30, 1940, Montagu Letters.
18
“You must have gone off”: Ewen Montagu to Iris Montagu, December 2, 1940, Montagu Letters.
19
“I am always the gooseberry”: Ewen Montagu to Iris Montagu, September 28, 1941, Montagu Letters.
20
“It was a question of whether”: Ewen Montagu to Iris Montagu, December 22, 1940, Montagu Letters.
21
“I took a girl from the office”: Ewen Montagu to Iris Montagu, April 4, 1942, Montagu Letters.
22
“skinny and embittered”: Jean Gerard Leigh, interview with the author, March 5, 2008.
23
“no German could resist the ‘Englishness’”: Ewen Montagu,
The Man Who Never Was
(Oxford, 1996), p. 152.
24
“achieved the thrill and pathos”: Ibid.
25
“P.L. from W.M. 14.4.43”: TNA, WO 106–5921–19.
26
“We will insert the legacy of £50”: Montagu,
The Man Who Never Was
, p. 156.
27
“since the wife’s family will not”: Ibid.
28
“The nearer the approach”: John Godfrey, “Afterthoughts,” TNA, ADM 223/619.
29
“He is very old”: Ewen Montagu to Iris Montagu, November 13, 1942, Montagu Letters.
30
“He was the world’s prize shit”: Ewen Montagu to Captain A. N. Grey, June 24, 1980, Montagu Papers.
31
“the unhoped for benefit”: Ewen Montagu to “Ginger,” July 6, 1943, Montagu Papers.
32
“preparation and devising”: Ibid.
33
“was entirely unsupervised”: Ibid.
34
“‘How will that argument’”: Ewen Montagu,
Beyond Top Secret Ultra
(London, 1977), p. 90.
35
“There was almost complete”: TNA, ADM 223/794.
36
“Masterman raised the question”: Ibid.
37
“execution subcommittee”: Ibid.
38
“the only deceptioneer”: Ibid.
39
“enthusiasm for all things Russian”: TNA, archives of the Security Service, MI5 (henceforth KV2) 598.
40
“We have had a request”: Ibid.
41
“the keenest players”: Ibid.
42
“Dear Comrade Trotsky”: Ivor Montagu to Leon Trotsky, July 1, 1929, Montagu Collection, Labour History Archive and Study Centre (People’s History Museum).
43
“like Edinburgh at its worst”: Ivor Montagu Autobiography.
44
“Two Turkish policemen”: Ibid.
45
“to put under my pillow”: Ibid.
46
“I did not know what precautions”: Ibid.
47
“The memory I shall always”: Ibid
48
“fascinating and commanding”: Ibid.
49
“repelled by his self-admiration”: Ibid.
50
“I felt I understood”: Ibid.
51
“Ivor Montagu has”: Leon Trotsky to Reg Groves, July 13, 1932, TNA, KV2/598.
52
“Montagu has for some time”: Security Service memo, May 10, 1926, TNA, KV2/598.
53
“Montagu has dark curly hair”: Ibid.
54
“What is the use of living”: Ivor Montagu Autobiography.
55
“Last night Ivor came to dinner”: Ewen Montagu to Iris Montagu, June 30, 1942, Montagu Letters.
56
“He is simply enormous”: Ewen Montagu to Iris Montagu, August 8, 1940, Montagu Letters.
57
“Ivor is really bad”: Ewen Montagu to Iris Montagu, December 12, 1940, Montagu Letters.
58
“He is busy working for the Russian”: Ewen Montagu to Iris Montagu, June 30, 1942, Montagu Letters.
59
“knew in advance practically”: Montagu,
Beyond Top Secret Ultra
, p. 30.
60
“that particularly unpleasant”: Security Service memo, RHH to DP (unidentified), March 3, 1942, TNA, KV2/599.
61
“I have met representatives”: TNA, records of the Government Code and Cypher School (henceforth HW) 15/43.
62
“Intelligentsia considers there is”: Ibid.
63
“influential relatives”: TNA, Ibid.
64
“Intelligentsia has not yet found”: Ibid.
65
“Although one is somewhat deaf”: J. B. S. Haldane,
What Is Life
(London, 1949), p. 32.
66
“I think that Marxism”: J. B. S. Haldane,
The Marxist Philosophy and the Sciences
(New York, 1939), p. 4.
67
“Intelligentsia has handed over”: TNA, HW 15/43.
68
“three military sources”: Ibid.
69
“reported that a girl”: Ibid.
70
“that this was a matter”: Ibid.
71
“an officer of the air ministry”: Ibid.
72
“The coastal defence is”: Ibid.
73
“30 Sausage Dealer bombers”: Ibid.
74
“he still seems to be going on with”: Ewen Montagu to Iris Montagu, June 11, 1941, Montagu Letters.
75
“Intelligentsia has reported”: TNA, HW 15/43.
Chapter Eight: The Butterfly Collector
1
“We felt that we knew”: Ewen Montagu,
Man Who Never Was
(Oxford, 1996), p. 160.
2
“an incurable romantic”: Christopher Andrew,
The Defence of the Realm: The Authorized History of MI5
(London, 2009), p. 285.
3
“joined up to go to sea”: Ewen Montagu,
Beyond Top Secret Ultra
(London, 1977), p. 20.
4
“Ewen lived the part”: Jean Gerard Leigh, interview with the author, March 5, 2008.
5
“He wrote me endless letters”: Ibid.
6
“Till death us do part”: Montagu,
Man Who Never Was
, p. 168.
7
“Pam dearest”: Ewen Montagu to Jean Leslie, undated, courtesy of Jean Gerard Leigh.
8
“The girl from the Elms”: Ewen Montagu to Iris Montagu, January 9, 1943, Montagu Letters.
9
“One of her appealing virtues”: Ewen Montagu to Iris Montagu, June 29, 1943, Montagu Letters.
10
“She has been much connected”: Ewen Montagu to Iris Montagu, April 15, 1943, Montagu Letters.
11
“I took the girl from the Elms”: Ewen Montagu to Iris Montagu, March 15, 1943, Montagu Letters.
12
“I feel definitely that you ought”: Ibid.
13
“If Mother did touch my things”: Ewen Montagu to Iris Montagu, June 29, 1943, Montagu Letters.
14
“I told her truthfully that it was”: Ibid.
15
“writing in her letters”: Montagu,
Man Who Never Was
, p. 168.
16
“would not carry enough weight”: TNA, ADM 223/794, p. 442.
17
“to fake documents of a sufficiently”: Ewen Montagu to Thomas Thibeault, March 18, 1980, Montagu Papers.
18
“a crooked lawyer’s dream of heaven”: Ewen Montagu,
Beyond Top Secret Ultra
(London, 1977), p. 150.
19
“bone from the neck up”: Rick Atkinson,
The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy 1943–1945
(London, 2007), p. 130.
20
“as if he had just had a steam bath”: Ibid., pp. 130–131.
21
“Will Eisenhower go ahead”: Ewen Montagu, first draft of letter, February 16, 1943, TNA, CAB 154/67.
22
“So and so—naming a general”: Ibid.
23
“personal and ‘off the record’”: Ibid.
24
“the contents of such a letter”: J. H. Bevan, report to T. A. Robertson, February 12, 1943, TNA, CO/43/66.
25
“almost completely ignorant”: Ewen Montagu, memo, March 5, 1943, TNA, ADM 223/794.
26
“is almost completely inexperienced”: Ewen Montagu, memo, March 5, 1943, TNA, ADM 223/794.
27
“From reports coming out”: German High Command to Command in Tunisia, February 26, 1943, MSS 2180/T.28, IWM 97/4/1, folder #1.
28
“Sicily has now been allowed”: Ewen Montagu, memo, March 5, 1943, TNA, ADM 223/794.