Klop by Peter Day

Author:Peter Day [Peter Day]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781849547642
Publisher: Biteback Publishing
Published: 2014-04-12T04:00:00+00:00

Klop also voiced concern that the chief of Portuguese police was often taken into their confidence even though they knew he was receiving huge bribes from German intelligence and inevitably compromising any secrets they might tell him.

He was conscious that he risked betrayal from the dubious company he was obliged to keep and had been warned to beware of assassins sent to wipe him out. He would always stand nervously at the back of a lift, against the wall, hoping to avoid being stabbed from behind with a hypodermic needle, fretted that his food was poisoned, or that a honey-trap with a homicidal femme fatale might be set for him.208

But his duties in Lisbon also had a more agreeable aspect. Klop was running an attractive 22-year-old Czech agent codenamed Ecclesiastic. She was the mistress of an Abwehr officer in Lisbon, Franz Koschnik, an expert on air force technical information. MI6 set Ecclesiastic up with a job in an office staffed by RAF personnel and provided her with ‘chicken feed’, low-level intelligence she could use to tempt her lover into indiscretions of his own which were of use to MI6. Klop managed to have twenty-six meetings with her in the space of five months and even obtained a photograph, taken by Koschnik, of Ecclesiastic copying the supposedly secret documents for him. Guy Liddell, apparently amused by Klop’s antics, suggested the photograph of Ecclesiastic would make a good frontispiece for his memoirs when he wrote himself up as a master spy. Klop found she enjoyed the game of mobilising her ample female resources against normal male instincts. Though he was very susceptible to such charms himself, he did find it necessary to reproach her that

her appreciation of the role we are assigning to her is at present more romantic than practical and [that is] why her cohabitation with Koschnik has … not yielded greater results so far. I made it clear that to live with the Abwehr is not quite helpful enough and that more concrete results must be achieved.209

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