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 (63 page)
57
“to let the matter drop”: Most Secret Source report, November 5, 1941, TNA, KV2/102.
58
“in the pay of the British Secret Service”: TNA, KV2/102.
59
“refused to take the report seriously”: TNA, KV2/102.
60
“cold and reserved”: TNA, KV2/102.
61
“Appearance: nervous, uncertain”: TNA, KV2/102.
62
“Kühlenthal is trembling to keep”: Statement of Josef Ledebur-Wichelin at Camp 020, November 25, 1944, TNA, KV2/102.
Chapter Thirteen: Mincemeat Sets Sail
1
“national importance”: Basil Leverton, interview with the author, September 8, 2009.
2
“I was not to divulge”: Ivor Leverton, unpublished diary, courtesy of Andrew Leverton.
3
“phone call from St. Pancras”: Ibid.
4
“I was still in fairly good shape”: Ibid.
5
“removal coffins”: Andrew Leverton, interview with the author, January 27, 2009.
6
“must have stood 6′4″ inches tall”: Ivor Leverton, letters to
Daily Telegraph
, August 13, 2002.
7
“left our passenger”: Ivor Leverton, unpublished diary.
8
“a mortuary-keeper on whom”: Ewen Montagu to John Godfrey, September 19, 1964, Montagu Papers.
9
“made it as easy as possible”: TNA, ADM 223/794, p. 450.
10
“I’ve got it”: Robert Jackson,
Coroner: The Biography of Sir Bentley Purchase
(London, 1963), p. 149.
11
“the least pleasant part of our work”: Ewen Montagu,
The Man Who Never Was
(Oxford, 1996), p. 160.
12
“We decided Bill Martin and Pam”: Ibid., p. 162.
13
“Get an army blanket”: Jackson,
Coroner
, p. 149.
14
“lightly tied with tape”: Ibid.
15
“reverently”: Montagu,
Man Who Never Was
, p. 162.
16
“a shirt and tie”: Ian Girling, “The Horsfall Story: A Tribute,”
Aston Martin Magazine
, vol. 33, no. 142, Spring 1999.
17
“went berserk”: Ibid.
18
“potentially lethal pieces of metal”: Ibid.
19
“The scream that Kath gave”: Ibid.
20
“I gave her time to start her piddle”: Ibid.
21
“he claimed to have done 100 mph”: John Otter, letter to
Daily Telegraph
, August 15, 2002.
22
“one of us sitting”: Draft manuscript of
The Man Who Never Was
, IWM 97/45/2.
23
“had supper with a corpse parked”: Ibid.
24
“much better story”: Montagu,
Man Who Never Was
, p. 163.
25
“partially ‘in the know’”: TNA, ADM 223/794, p. 450.
26
“being accepted as merely being”: Ibid.
27
“By this time Major Martin”: Montagu,
Man Who Never Was
, p. 160.
28
“We had come to feel”: Ibid.
29
“news such as can be written”: Ewen Montagu to Iris Montagu, April 24, 1943, Montagu Letters.
30
“I had to go up to Scotland”: Ibid.
31
“I was to see that this package”: David Scott, “The Man That Never Was: Operation Mincemeat,” Reminiscences of Sir David Scott, Churchill Archives, DKNS II, p. 2.
32
“It was a real thrill”: Ewen Montagu, unpublished account, October 7, 1976, Montagu Papers.
33
“Spring was on the way”: Scott, “Man That Never Was,” p. 3.
34
“trim dive”: Ibid.
35
“A final exchange of ‘Good Luck’”: Ibid.
36
“Monotony never really set in”: Ibid.
37
“We were never short of meat”: Ibid.
38
“John Brown’s Body”: Montagu,
Man Who Never Was
, p. 169.
39
“our pal Charlie”: Terence Robertson,
The Ship with Two Captains: The Story of the “Secret Mission Submarine”
(London, 1957), p. 124.
40
“epitome of what a submarine captain”: Scott, “Man That Never Was,” p. 4.
41
“At that time, the chances of returning”: Ibid.
42
“I realised with a bit of a shock”: Ibid.
43
“bashed-in sort of face”: John Parker,
SBS: The Story of the Special Boat Service
(London, 1997), p. 19.
44
“Your American gum”: Robertson,
Ship with Two Captains
, p. 92.
45
“a happy augury for the future”: Terence Robertson,
The Ship with Two Captains: The Story of the “Secret Mission Submarine”
(London, 1957), p. 92.
46
“a two-fisted fighting man”: N. L. A. Jewell, as told to Cecil Carnes,
Secret Mission Submarine: Action Report of the HMS Seraph
(London, 1944), p. 101.
47
“We’ll fight an army on a dare”: Atkinson,
Day of Battle
, p. 82.
48
“always conspicuously”: Citation for Distinguished Service Cross.
49
“I think we can do it”: Robertson,
Ship with Two Captains
, p. 106.
50
“sink on sight any vessel”: Ibid.
51
“Put me ashore, give me a gun”: Ibid., p. 110.
52
“constant strain”: Ibid., p. 112.
53
“one grabbed a large”: Ibid.
54
“broken nose”: Ibid.
55
“a lithe, graceful look”: Ibid., p. 124.
56
“We were told that we were not”: N. L. A. Jewell, Audiotape 12278, 1991, IWM.
57
“unmistakable sounds”: Scott, “Man That Never Was,” p. 5.
58
“We knew that at least”: Ibid.
Chapter Fourteen: Bill’s Farewell
1
“I rushed home”: Jean Gerard Leigh, interview with the author, March 5, 2008.
2
“absurd”: Ewen Montagu,
The Man Who Never Was
(Oxford, 1996), p. 167.
3
Bill Martin’s death: TNA, CAB 154/67.
4
“We were terribly agitated”: Jean Gerard Leigh, interview with the author, March 5, 2008.
5
“as a joke”: Montagu,
The Man Who Never Was
, p. 167.
6
“gathered from every part”: John Fisher,
What a Performance: A Life of Sid Field
(London, 1975), p. 85.
7
“definitely ‘a find’”: Ibid., p. 99.
8
“the loudest laughter we”: Ibid., p. 100.
9
“all his jokes are clean”: Ibid.
10
“I’m going to get pickled”: Ibid., p. 96.
11
“an adequate ration of gin”: Ibid., p. 85.
12
“If an Air Raid Warning”: Ibid.
13
“When you feel unhappy”: Ibid., p. 103.
14
“The laughs came like the waves”: Ibid., p. 88.
15
“The weather was warm at last”: David Scott, “The Man That Never Was: Operation Mincemeat,” Reminiscences of Sir David Scott, Churchill Archives, DKNS II, p. 3.
16
“were such that strangers”: Obituary of Michael Luke,
Independent
, April 19, 2005.
17
“mystery suffused with a tender”: Ibid.
18
“very cheerful evening”: Montagu,
Man Who Never Was
, p. 167.
19
“Considering Bill and Pam are engaged”: Ibid.
20
“It would be different”: Ibid.
21
“They kept looking at their watches”: Jean Gerard Leigh, interview with the author, March 5, 2008.
22
“I had to go and take”: Ewen Montagu to Iris Montagu, April 23, 1943, Montagu Letters.
23
“smitten”: Jean Gerard Leigh, interview with the author, March 5, 2008.
24
“I am glad that Verel”: Ewen Montagu to Iris Montagu, June 29, 1943, Montagu Letters.
25
“We were all very excited”: Pat Davies, interview with the author, October 4, 2009.
26
“One patriotic Greek managed”: Thaddeus Holt,
The Deceivers: Allied Military Deception in the Second World War
(London, 2004), p. 368.
27
“hygiene in the Balkans”: Ibid.
28
“no major operation could be”: Ewen Montagu, unpublished critique of Constantine Fitzgibbon,
Secret Intelligence in the Twentieth Century
(London, 1976), Montagu Papers.
29
“the peak of the Deception effort”: Holt,
Deceivers
, p. 366.
30
“if they should suspect”: Ewen Montagu, memo, March 31, 1943, TNA, W0 106/5921.
31
“I had to take the can”: Ewen Montagu to “Ginger,” July 6, 1943, Montagu Papers.
32
“Intelligence, like food”: John Godfrey, “Afterthoughts,” TNA, ADM 223/619, p. 91.