Voyage Of The Damned by Thomas Gordon & Morgan-Witts Max

Author:Thomas, Gordon & Morgan-Witts, Max
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
Published: 2010-06-30T16:00:00+00:00

Robert Hoffman found Purser Mueller in his office, explained that the captain had granted shore leave, and suggested that a launch filled with crew should go ashore that evening.

“Would you also like to pick those to go?” inquired Mueller sarcastically.

“I’ll leave that to you. But make sure the ship’s Orstgruppenleiter is among them. I want to talk to him about crew morale.”

“You can do that now,” retorted the purser.

In uncomfortable silence, the two men waited for Otto Schiendick. When the steward arrived, Hoffman pointedly asked the purser to leave.

Mueller was about to protest, saw the look on Hoffman’s face, and slammed shut his office door.

Hoffman looked carefully at the man who had come over 4000 miles to keep this Treff—and was, as an Abwehr report later showed, singularly unimpressed.

Years would pass before the substance of their meeting, as with much else involving the two men, became available, pieced together from information provided by their former colleagues and from the files of German, American, and British intelligence. From these, it is clear that Hoffman summed up Schiendick as a servile, self-aggrandizing man. Schiendick had produced his notebook, filled with the trivia he had written down about Schroeder and Mueller, adding: “They are not party men and should be removed.”

Hoffman indicated he was not interested in such tittle-tattle, and handed over the two fountain pens and their precious microfilm, no doubt saying that his only concern was the completion of Operation Sunshine. He briefed the steward on the pickup and on the situation ashore, telling him about the American and Cuban secret service men prowling the Havana waterfront.

However little Hoffman thought of Schiendick, like Gustav Schroeder, the spymaster found himself in a situation over which he had no control. There could be no question of aborting the mission, nor was there any way of replacing the steward as a courier. He, like Schroeder, was saddled with Schiendick.

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