Operation Blunderhead by David Gordon Kirby

Author:David Gordon Kirby
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9780750965828
Publisher: The History Press
Published: 2015-07-23T16:00:00+00:00

Notes

1. Desk instruction book of Tallinn Central Prison. ERA.R-264.1.167.

2. Camp records, however, have ‘Sabotage-Mann’ Flight Lieutenant Seth arriving from Riga on 16 January. German Federal Archives, Military Division. BaMa. RL 23/97.

3. Report 44, p.19. Seth 2008, p.139. Seth’s description of living conditions and the rations issued conforms to the report of the American Intelligence Service, November 1945. www.486th.org/Photos/Stammlager/KU3738/DulagLuft.htm.

4. Report 44, p.19.

5. Copies of the intercepted report in HS9/1344 and HS4/240.

6. Seth 2008, p.146.

7. Seth may have misspelled this name. According to the evidence of Emil Kliemann, the man who interrogated him was Wirth, and a Hauptmann Wirth is known to have subsequently deserted to Spain via France, KV2/378. Geck 2008, p.139.

8. Report 44, p.19.

9. Seth 2008, pp.160–1. Diamant 1988, pp.310–21 for details of the personnel.

10. TLA. 148/1/10. To put this in perspective, the Seths were paying 85 crowns a month rent, and his salary was around 150 crowns: no wonder he worked sixteen hours a day! Seth 1939, pp.207–8.

11. Report 44, pp.21–2.

12. Seth’s Peterhouse contemporary Charles Fletcher-Cooke rose to the rank of lieutenant commander in the RNVR during the war, and entered Parliament in 1951 as Conservative MP for Darwen. Report 44, pp.22–3.

13. Notice by J.F.W-W, The Times, 4 November 1959.

14. Letter of 19 October 1935, Peterhouse Archives.

15. Report 44, pp.22–3 for the ‘Windsor League’, Seth 2008, pp.175–7 for the ‘Republican League’.

16. MI5 report 3, p.13.

17. Bauman and Koch 2008, p.145.

18. Report 44, p.26.

19. Murphy 2006, p.97.

20. Memo of 12 June 1943, HS9/1344.

21. Letter to Wing Commander Burges, 13 December 1943, HS9/1344.

22. Josephine Seth to Hazell, 21 July 1943, HS4/240.

23. Personal and confidential, Paris, August 7 1944, HS9/1344.

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