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 (64 page)
33
“with instructions to burn”: N. L. A. Jewell, operational orders, March 31, 1943, TNA, ADM 223/464.
34
“Operation known as Mincemeat”: Telegram from T. A. Robertson, MI5, to DSO Gibraltar, April 22, 1943, TNA, CAB 154/67.
35
“something of a shock”: Scott, “Man That Never Was,” p. 4.
36
“sailors had been sleeping”: Ibid.
37
“the vital need for absolute secrecy”: TNA, ADM 223/794, p. 451.
38
“Isn’t it pretty unlucky”: Montagu,
Man Who Never Was
, p. 170.
39
“a close range reconnaissance”: Scott, “Man That Never Was,” p. 4.
40
“easy, even enjoyable”: Ibid.
41
“The operation had to be carried”: N. L. A. Jewell, operational orders, March 31, 1943, TNA, ADM 223/464.
42
“an onshore wind”: Ibid.
43
“The next day turned out to be ideal”: Scott, “Man That Never Was,” p. 4.
44
“arrange total bombing restrictions”: Memo, April 15, 1943, IWM, 97/45/1, folder #1.
45
“no known defensive dangers”: TNA, ADM 223/794, p. 445.
46
“We were just about to surface”: N. L. A. Jewell, Audiotape 12278, 1991, IWM.
47
“A large number of small fishing boats”: N. L. A. Jewell report, April 30, 1943, cited in Montagu,
Man Who Never Was
, p. 168.
48
“landing some pseudo-secret instruments”: N. L. A. Jewell, operational orders, March 31, 1943, TNA, ADM 223/464.
49
“crept in a little closer”: Scott, “Man That Never Was,” p. 4.
50
“some little stink”: N. L. A. Jewell, Audiotape 12278, 1991, IWM.
51
“I doubt if any of them”: Ibid.
52
“I had seen bodies before”: Ibid.
53
“The blanket was opened up”: TNA 223/794.
54
“We seemed to be practically”: Scott, “Man That Never Was,” p. 5.
55
“what I could remember”: N. L. A. Jewell, Audiotape 12278, 1991, IWM.
56
“With some relief”: Scott, “Man That Never Was,” p. 5.
57
“He virtually assured success”: TNA, ADM 223/794, p. 453.
58
“Because it had been designed”: Ibid.
59
“riddled by fire”: Ibid.
60
“He did this with his usual skill”: Scott, “Man That Never Was,” p. 5.
61
“a hell of a time”: N. L. A. Jewell, Audiotape 12278, 1991, IWM.
62
“Daylight was fast approaching”: Scott, “Man That Never Was,” p. 5.
63
“It then disappeared, finally”: N. L. A. Jewell, Audiotape 12278, 1991, IWM.
64
“it was seen to sink”: N. L. A. Jewell Report, April 30, 1943, cited in Montagu,
Man Who Never Was
, p. 168.
65
“We dived and set course for Gibraltar”: Scott, “Man That Never Was,” p. 5.
66
“Mincemeat Completed”: TNA, ADM 223/794.
67
“Parcel delivered safely”: Terence Robertson,
The Ship with Two Captains: The Story of the “Secret Mission Submarine”
(London, 1957), p. 117.
Chapter Fifteen:
Dulce et Decorum
1
“G VI R and the royal crown”: IWM 97/45/1, folder #2.
2
“which had penetrated the muscles”: Ibid.
3
“should telephone to him at Madrid”: TNA, ADM 223/794, p. 445.
4
“would say that he could not talk”: Ibid.
5
“a separate series in his personal cipher”: Ewen Montagu to Fitzroy McLean, March 30, 1977, IWM 97/45/1, folder #5.
6
“energetically”: TNA, ADM 223/794, p. 445.
7
“Soup Bowl”: Jesús Ramírez Copeiro del Villar,
Huelva en la Guerra Mundial
(Huelva, Spain, 1996), p. 411.
8
“examined the names on the envelopes”: IWM, 97/45/1, folder #2, Appendix III.
9
“react swiftly”: Copeiro del Villar,
Huelva
, p. 422.
10
“Well, your superior might not like”: Ibid.
11
“attitude, in refusing the briefcase”: Ibid.
12
“of an English pattern”: Telegram to von Roenne from FHW, May 22, 1943, TNA, ADM 223/794, p. 207.
13
“There are clearly two”: Ibid.
14
“On the first incision being made”: Edward Smith (former head of Reporting Organisation Section, NID) to Ewen Montagu, June 5, 1969, IWM.
15
“remarkable presence of mind”: Ibid.
16
“Since it was obvious the heat”: Ibid.
17
“On receiving this assurance”: Ibid.
18
“The young British officer fell in the water”: Copeiro del Villar,
Huelva
, p. 414.
19
“nibbling and bites by fish”: Ibid.
20
“The shininess of the hair”: Ibid.
21
“doubt over the nature of the liquid”: Ibid.
22
“He seemed very well dressed”: Isabel Naylor, interview with the author, June 3, 2009.
23
“identical”: Telegram to von Roenne from FHW, May 22, 1943, TNA, ADM 223/794, p. 207.
24
“that a bald patch on the temples”: Ibid.
25
“either the photograph was taken”: Ibid.
26
“With reference to my phone message”: Unsigned telegram 012210 sent at 20.30 on May 1, 1943, TNA, ADM 223/794.
27
“so that the action for suppressing”: TNA, ADM 223/794, p. 457.
28
“the suppression of the signal”: Ibid.
29
“taken into naval custody”: Ewen Montagu to Cyril Mills, November 11, 1983, Montagu Papers.
30
“The Spanish navy is not in German”: Ewen Montagu to “C,” June 21, 1943, IWM 97/45/1, folder #2.
31
“a rigid disciplinarian”: Copeiro del Villar,
Huelva
, p. 422.
32
“suffocating heat”: Ibid., p. 414.
33
“as a mark of respect”: Federico Clauss, interview with the author, June 2, 2009.
34
“W. Martin, aged between 35 and 40”: Copeiro del Villar,
Huelva
, p. 420.
35
“Class Five”: Ibid.
Chapter Sixteen: Spanish Trails
1
“do everything necessary”: Andros report, IWM 97/45/1, folder #2.
2
“Notwithstanding his great desire”: Ibid.
3
“These three persons are in command”: Ibid.
4
“intimate friend”: Ibid.
5
“nursed a profound antipathy”: Jesús Ramírez Copeiro del Villar,
Huelva en la Guerra Mundial
(Huelva, Spain, 1996), p. 286.
6
“did not dare to ask the naval judge”: Andros report, IWM 97/45/1, folder #2.
7
“In Huelva, Don Adolfo”: Federico Clauss, interview with the author, June 2, 2009.
8
“neither copied nor photographed”: Andros report, IWM 97/45/1, folder #2.
9
“I am glad to say the naval”: Alan Hillgarth to Ewen Montagu, June 9, 1943, IWM, 97/45/1, folder #1.
10
“Some of papers Major Martin”: Department of Naval Intelligence to NA, telegram 04132, May 4, 1943, TNA, W0 106/5921, p. 32.
11
“Carry out instructions”: Telegram 869, May 4, 1943, IWM 97/45/1, folder #1.
12
“kept on such a plane”: Ewen Montagu, “Draft Proposal for Compiler of MI5 History,” July 24, 1945, IWM, 97/45/1, folder #1.
13
“searching but discreet”: Ibid.
14
“Rumours are extremely easy”: Alan Hillgarth, report, TNA, ADM 223/478.
15
“select from among his acquaintance”: Ibid.
16
“sincerely anti-war”: TNA, ADM 223/876.
17
“I managed to make the Minister”: Alan Hillgarth, report, TNA, ADM 223/490.
18
“that the Minister of Marine”: Alan Hillgarth, May 5, 1943, IWM 97/45/1, folder #2.
19
“Vice Consul Huelva saw body”: NA [naval attaché] to Department of Naval Intelligence, May 5, 1943, 1823, IWM 97/45/1, folder #2.
20
“Secret papers probably in black”: Department of Naval Intelligence to NA [naval attaché], telegram 071216, May 7, 1943, TNA, W0 106/5921, p. 33.
21
“Normally you would be getting”: Ewen Montagu to NA [naval attaché] Madrid, telegram 870, May 6, 1943, IWM 97/45/1, folder #1.
22
“Understood and acted on throughout”: IWM 97/45/1, folder #1.
23
“promised to obtain copies”: Andros report, IWM 97/45/1, folder #2.
24
“discreet inquiries whether any”: Alan Hillgarth memo, IWM 97/45/1, folder #2.
25
“As the local Germans were not able”: Andros report, IWM 97/45/1, folder #2.
26
“summoned to Villarreal de San Antonio”: Ibid.
27
“very pro-German and in German pay”: Ibid.
28
“This individual”: Ibid.
29
“to do everything possible to obtain”: Ibid.
30
“Urging him to use the utmost”: Ibid.