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 (60 page)
29
“It is much easier”: Ibid.
30
“He still has no deception”: Ibid.
31
“complete failure to”: Ibid.
32
“now in a highly dangerous situation”: Ibid.
33
“It would be a very great pity”: Ewen Montagu to T. A. Robertson, February 16, 1943.
34
“Spanish police records”: Tomas Harris,
Garbo: The Spy Who Saved D-Day
(London, 2004), p. 38.
35
“worked in military intelligence”: Jimmy Burns,
Papa Spy: Love, Faith and Betrayal in Wartime Spain
(London, 2009), p. 232.
36
“a Spaniard to Spaniards”: Ian Colvin,
The Unknown Courier
(London, 1953), pp. 98–99.
37
“because of his enormous”: Hector Lindi,
Gibraltar Chronicle
, August 1989.
38
“no more than a smattering of sea experience”: TNA, ADM 223/490.
39
“padding about Madrid”: Colvin,
Unknown Courier
, p. 98.
40
“exceptionally favoured by character”: TNA, ADM 223/490.
41
“He was invaluable”: TNA, ADM 223/490.
42
“privileges and facilities”: TNA, ADM 223/490.
43
“Spain contained a large”: TNA, ADM 223/490.
44
“Madrid was full of spies”: TNA, ADM 223/490.
45
“danger of the body”: TNA, ADM 223/794, p. 444.
46
“German influence in Huelva”: Ibid.
47
“a reliable and helpful man”: Ibid.
48
“very pro-German chief of police”: Cyril Mills to Ewen Montagu, November 11, 1983, Montagu Papers.
49
“active and influential”: TNA, ADM 223/794, p. 444.
50
“The Shadow”: Jesús Ramírez Copeiro del Villar,
Huelva en la Guerra Mundial
(Huelva, Spain), p. 306.
51
“the viceroys”: Jesús Copeiro del Villar, interview with the author, June 3, 2009.
52
“First the Romans”: Ibid.
53
“the black sheep”: Isabel Naylor, interview with the author, June 3, 2009.
54
“the only clever one in the family”: Ibid.
55
“He didn’t dispute”: Federico Clauss, interview with the author, June 2, 2009.
56
“cold, distant and silent”: Jesús Copeiro del Villar, interview with the author, June 3, 2009.
57
“He was an active and intelligent”: Copeiro del Villar,
Huelva
, p. 306.
58
“very efficient German agent”: Ewen Montagu to Lynne Gladstone-Miller, November 1, 1983, Montagu Papers.
59
“super-super efficient agent”: Ewen Montagu, “History of Section 17M (Now Section 12Z),” October 26, 1942, Montagu Papers.
60
“first rate”: Ewen Montagu to Lynne Gladstone-Miller, November 1, 1983, Montagu Papers.
61
“No ship can move without being”: Montagu, “History of Section 17M.”
62
“one of the most difficult”: J. C. Masterman, cited in David Stafford,
Roosevelt and Churchill: Men of Secrets
(London, 1999), p. 94.
63
“the tiniest jewel in the imperial”: TNA, KV4/260.
64
“mercenary instincts were”: Ibid.
65
“increased and spread”: Ewen Montagu, “History of Section 17M,” October 26, 1942, Montagu Papers.
66
“in all Spanish and Spanish owned ports”: Ibid.
67
“one of the most important”: Copeiro del Villar,
Huelva
, p. 306.
68
“sufficient evidence can be obtained”: Draft of Operation Mincemeat Report, EM and CC, 27 April 1943, IWM 97/45/1, folder #2.
69
“They would have to”: Ibid.
70
“washing ashore of any”: Ibid.
71
“was to be told the outline of the plan”: Ibid.
Chapter Nine: My Dear Alex
1
“owing to the need for placing”: Charles Cholmondeley, Memo 6a, TNA, W0 106/5921.
2
“if the body were dropped in this way”: Ibid.
3
“come in from out at sea”: Ibid.
4
“After the body has been”: Ibid.
5
“technical difficulties in keeping”: Ibid.
6
“Of these methods”: Ibid.
7
“unswerving logic of the German”: Ben Macintyre,
For Your Eyes Only
, p. 108.
8
“if most of the oxygen had previously”: TNA, ADM 223/794, p. 446.
9
“keep perfectly satisfactorily”: Ewen Montagu to J. H. Bevan, March 26, 1943, TNA, ADM 223/464.
10
“an enormous thermos flask”: Montagu,
The Man Who Never Was
(Oxford, 1996), p. 126.
11
“HANDLE WITH CARE”: TNA, ADM 223/794, p. 445.
12
“the Spaniards and Portuguese”: N. L. A. Jewell, operational orders, March 31, 1943, TNA, ADM 223/464.
13
“the tides in that area”: Ibid.
14
“wind between S and W”: Hydrographer’s Report, March 22, 1943, TNA, W0 106/5921.
15
“if it did not strand”: Ibid.
16
“The currents on the coast”: Ewen Montagu to J. H. Bevan, March 23, 1943, TNA, CAB 154/67.
17
“I am not quite clear as to who”: J. H. Bevan to Ewen Montagu, March 1, 1943, TNA, CAB 154/67.
18
“thinking it couldn’t come off”: Ewen Montagu to “Ginger,” July 6, 1943, Montagu Papers.
19
“Mincemeat will be taken out”: Ewen Montagu to J. H. Bevan, March 26, 1943, TNA, ADM 223/464.
20
“All the details are now ‘buttoned up’”: Ibid.
21
“alteration and improvement”: Ibid.
22
“more personal”: J. H. Bevan to A. Nye, April 8, 1943, TNA, CAB 154/67.
23
“a letter in answer to one from”: Ewen Montagu draft of letter, April 6, 1943, TNA, CAB 154/67.
24
“should not be undertaken”: Admiralty amendment to official report, June 3, 1945, TNA, CAB 154/67.
25
“rather too official”: J. H. Bevan to A. Nye, April 10, 1943, TNA, CAB 154/67.
26
“we must get Dudley Clarke’s”: J. H. Bevan, memo TNA, CAB 154/67.
27
“danger of overloading”: Dudley Clarke to J. H. Bevan, April 2, 1943, TNA, CAB 154/67.
28
“a mistake to play for high”: Admiralty amendment to official report, June 3, 1945, TNA, CAB 154/67.
29
“If anything miscarries”: J. H. Bevan, memo, April 12, 1943, TNA, CAB 154/67.
30
“merely a lowish grade innuendo”: Excised paragraph 13 in “Draft History of Operation Mincemeat,” May 29, 1943, IWM, 97/45/1, folder #2.
31
“Mincemeat should be capable”: Admiralty amendment to official report, June 3, 1945, TNA, CAB 154/67.
32
“of a type which could have”: Excised paragraph 14 in “Draft History of Operation Mincemeat,” May 29, 1943, IWM 97/45/1, folder #2.
33
“If it isn’t too much trouble”: Ewen Montagu, undated draft letter, TNA, CAB 154/67.
34
“How are you getting on”: Ibid.
35
“Do you still take the same size”: Ibid.
36
“What is wrong with Monty?”: Ibid.
37
“the best way of giving it”: Ewen Montagu, draft letter, April 6, 1943, TNA, CAB 154/67.
38
“ideally suited to the purpose”: Ibid.
39
“not blatantly mentioned”: Ewen Montagu, memo, April 4, 1943, TNA, CAB 154/67.
40
“Your signature in ink might”: J. H. Bevan to A. Nye, April 8, 1943, TNA, CAB 154/67.
41
“General Wilson is referred to”: Ibid.
42
“I referred to him variously”: A. Nye to J. H. Bevan, April 14, 1943, TNA, CAB 154/67.
43
“I would never have written”: A. Nye to Ewen Montagu, April 26, 1954, Montagu Papers.
44
“P.S. We saw you on the cinema”: Ibid.
45
“might help to strike”: Ibid.
46
“Now I hope your friends”: A. Nye to J. H. Bevan, April 14, 1943, TNA, CAB 154/67.
47
“a truly magnificent letter”: Montagu,
Man Who Never Was
, p. 135.
48
“It’s too velvety-arsed and Rolls Royce”: Rick Atkinson,
The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy 1943–1945
(London, 2007), p. 52.
49
“laboured”: Montagu,
Man Who Never Was
, p. 143.
50
“I thought that that sort of joke”: Ibid.
51
“Papers actually on the body”: Charles Cholmondeley, memo, February 10, 1943, TNA, CAB 154/67, p. 229.
52
“the Chiefs of Staff have approved”: TNA, CAB 154/67.
53
“To my surprise I was ushered”: J. H. Bevan, handwritten account, undated [April 15, 1943], TNA, CAB 154/67.
54
“In the higher ranges of Secret Service”: Ben Macintyre,
For Your Eyes Only: Ian Fleming and James Bond
(London, 2008), p. 58.
55
“Of course there’s a possibility”: Conversation recalled by Randolph Churchill in conversation with J. H. Bevan, recorded in Martin Gilbert,
Road to Victory
(London, 1981), p. 389.