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 (71 page)
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, 2008.
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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Archives
British Library Newspaper Archive, Colindale, UK
Bundesarchiv-Militärarchiv, Freiburg
Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge, UK
Imperial War Museum Archives, London (IWM)
Labour History Archive and Study Centre (People’s History Museum), Manchester
Mountbatten Papers, University of Southampton, UK
National Archives, Washington, DC
National Archives, Kew, UK (TNA)
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