The Greatest Treason: The Bizarre Story of Hollis, Liddell, and Mountbatten by Richard Deacon

Author:Richard Deacon [Deacon, Richard]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780712646833
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Amazon: 0712646833
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Published: 2023-02-06T04:52:16+00:00

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in March of 1944 she was sent to Lisbon in the hope that she might be given a wireless transmitter. The hope was fulfilled and on her return wireless communication was established. Later it became necessary to operate the transmitter in her name using our own operator, partly because she was in poor health and partly because she proved exceptionally temperamental and troublesome. 8

This latter statement seems to diverge from the popular view that

‘Treasure’ was indeed a treasure. Nevertheless Lily was allowed to return to Paris when it was liberated and, as a result, her German case officer was arrested and brought back to Britain. She had been the only woman in the Abwehr’s service to have been trusted to operate a clandestine radio in enemy territory, for the Germans regarded her just as highly as the British. One reason why she may have been allowed back into France so soon was that she was slowly dying of an incurable disease, but there was another reason for her going: she needed to report to her Soviet control officer in Paris. Norman Holmes Pearson, professor of American literature at Yale University, who served in London with the American OSS and was closely linked to the

‘Double-Cross’ organisation, said: ‘We had reports long after the war was over that one of our agents who liaised with the Russians was told that Lily Sergueiev had given the Soviet Union the most detailed plans of American-British operations in the closing stages of the war.‘9

Harris’s supreme feat in the war and the one in which he brought all his artistry to bear was that of the agent ‘Garbo’, perhaps the most brilliant hoax ever perpetrated in military operations. Harris was really the creator of ‘Garbo’. His idea was to build up a completely fictitious espionage network for the Germans inside Britain - just to keep them quiet and mislead them. But the linchpin in this scheme, which naturally fitted in splendidly with the underlying motive of providing a realistic network for the Russians, was the conception of’Garbo’. Harris was neither an academic, nor an intellectual, but he had a fastthinking brain and astonishing intuition. Antl1ony Blunt told how

‘Operation Garbo’:

misled the Germans about Allied plans for the invasion of France. The success of the operation was mainly due to the extraordinary imaginative power with which Tomas directed it.

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