All the King's Men (36 page)

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References in the Text

CHAPTER I

1
Letter from Henri to Jeannot, 9 December 1946.

2
Mme Déricourt, 9 May 1982. Mme Déricourt’s recollection of that evening was so precise she could even recall what they had been eating: tripe.

3
Letter from Déricourt to his wife, 9 December 1946.

4
Complaint from unnamed DST officer noted in Déricourt trial papers.

5
Inside the SOE
, E. H. Cookridge, p. 215.

6
A number of people have heard the ‘trapeze artist’ story. This particular version was taken from an interview with Rémy Clément. It is one of the more fantastic tales he had heard from Déricourt.

7
A story Déricourt had told two Belgian intelligence officers in London in October 1942.

8
Déricourt writes a great deal about the ‘little people’ in a series of letters to Miss Overton Fuller during 1959–1962.

9
Déricourt papers.

10
Farman Air School log book.

11
Robert Marotin, 14 March 1982.

12
ibid.

13
Air Bleu correspondence in Déricourt papers.

14
Déricourt flight log – confirmed by Ministère de L’Air, Contrôle.

15
Léon Doulet and Rémy Clément, 13 March 1983.

16
Robert Marotin, 14 March 1982.

17
ibid.

18
Bodington personal file, Reuters.

19
Contemporaries of Bodington recall his trip to Spain and his writing about Punter. Punter had links with Claude
Dansey’s Z Organization.
Colonel Z
, Read and Fisher, p. 253.

20
Boemelburg papers, Berlin Document Centre.

21
Rolfe Boemelburg, 23 January 1986. The only son of Carl Boemelburg, Rolfe was a student in Paris during his father’s assignment in 1938. He is absolutely certain he never met either Déricourt or Bodington.

22
Private information.

23
Rolfe Boemelburg, 23 January 1986. His father enjoyed re-telling this story whenever he was home on leave.

CHAPTER II

1
Secret Service
, Christopher Andrew, pp. 414–18.

2
Greek Memories
, Compton Mackenzie, p. 324.

3
Secret Service
, Christopher Andrew, Chapter 4.

4
Letter from Dansey to Major R. H. Van Deman quoted in
Colonel Z
, Read and Fisher.

5
Secret Service
, Christopher Andrew, Chapter 4.

6
Dansey’s early biographical details are well covered in
Colonel Z
, Read and Fisher.

7
Colonel Z
, Read and Fisher.

8
ibid.

9
MI6
, Nigel West, p. 69.

10
ibid.

11
The best account of the Venlo Incident is contained in the Payne Best papers held at the Imperial War Museum (IWM) under MSS 79/57/1.

12
The Order of the Death’s Head
, Heinze Hohne, pp. 214ff.

13
Record of International Military Tribunal, Nuremberg, Vol. XX, p. 194.

14
Shlomo Aronson, Heydrich’s biographer, quoted in
The Order of the Death’s Head
, Heinze Hohne.

15
Colonel Z
, Read and Fisher.

16
André Dewarvrin (Colonel Passy), 4 January 1986.

17
Letter from Dansey to Payne Best, December 1945. IWM MSS 79/57/1.

18
Robin Cecil, personal assistant to Stewart Menzies, September 1943 to 1945. Interviewed 5 February 1986.

CHAPTER III

1
The French and the Phoney War
, Fonvieille-Alquier, p. 78.

2
Bodington dispatches for Reuters.

3
Foreign Office, 28 November 1985.

4
Rolfe Boemelburg and the Boemelburg papers, Berlin Document Centre.

5
État des Services
(essentially a military record), the Déricourt papers.

6
Horoscope for a Double Agent
, Jean Overton Fuller.

7
Rémy Clément, 8 May 1982.

8
Déricourt’s log, confirmed by SNCASE.

9
ibid.

10
ibid.

11
Mme Déricourt, 20 November 1982.

12
Rémy Clément, 8 January 1986.

13
Déricourt’s log, authorized by SNCASE.

14
Mme Déricourt, 20 November 1982.

15
Déricourt’s log, confirmed by SNCASE.

16
C. Besnard, December 1982.

17
ibid.

18
ibid.

19
Boemelburg papers, Berlin Document Centre.

20
Codeword: Direktor
, Heinze Höhne, p. 85.

21
Carl Braun was Boemelburg’s driver throughout the war. He disappeared in 1947 but was reached through a third party and eventually provided this account of Boemelburg’s and Déricourt’s reunion. The date is uncertain, but it was before the end of 1940.

22
Rolfe Boemelburg and
Codeword: Direktor
, Heinze Höhne.

23
Déricourt’s log, authorized by SCLAM.

CHAPTER IV

1
Foreign Office, 28 November 1985.

2
The Second World War
, Vol. 2, W. S. Churchill.

3
CAB 66/7, WP (40) 168 Meeting of the Chiefs of Staff, 25 May 1940, in the Public Records Office, Kew.

4
ibid.

5
Sir William Stephenson, telephone conversation with author, 10 January 1986.

6
The SOE 1940–46
, M. R. D. Foot, p. 21.

7
ibid.

8
Colonel Z
, Read and Fisher, p. 270.

9
J. G. Beevor, letter to the author, 3 September 1986.

10
Robin Cecil, 5 February 1986.

11
Colonel Z
, Read and Fisher, p. 271.

12
ibid. Corroborated by Sir William Stephenson and General Sir James Marshall-Cornwall.

13
MI9
,
Escape and Evasion
, Foot and Langley.

14
M. R. D. Foot, November 1985.

15
Foreign Office, 28 November 1985.

16
ibid.

CHAPTER V

1
Mme Déricourt, 9 May 1982.

2
Leon Doulet, 5 January 1986.

3
Arthur, Lord Granar, 6 January 1986; Sir Robert Maxwell, 11 February 1986.

4
Léon Doulet, 5 January 1986.

5
ibid.

6
Letter from H. M. Donaldson to unnamed officer in the Division of Foreign Activity Correlation of the US Department of State, 11 November 1942. 851.20241/2, in National Archive, Washington D.C.

7
ibid.

8
I Was There
, Fleet Admiral William D. Leahy, p. 89.

9
Léon Doulet, 5 January 1986.

10
Two contemporaries at Marignon claim Déricourt boasted the Americans called him Henry.

11
Déricourt log, authorized by SCLAM.

12
Déricourt trial papers, Interrogation I, 1946.

13
Donaldson, see note 6 above.

14
Foreign Office, April 1986.

15
Donaldson, see note 6 above.

16
Dr Albert Guerisse (Pat O’Leary), March 1986.

17
Donaldson, see note 6 above.

18
Déricourt log, confirmed by SCLAM.

19
Mme Déricourt, 9 May 1982.

20
Léon Doulet, 5 January 1986.

21
Every detail of their journey to Britain comes from an interview with Doulet on 5 January 1986, and confirmed in innumerable letters and telephone conversations since.

22
The details of these messages from Dansey to his men in Gibraltar were relayed to me by a Foreign Office official, in April 1986. It was a rare insight into MI6 archives. I subsequently asked if I could have the text of Arthur (Lord Granar) Forbes’ reply and, more importantly, Dansey’s response to it. (In fact I already knew what Forbes’ reply had been.) I was told that before any further information could be released from MI6 files, the matter would have to be referred to a higher authority. ‘If you hear nothing further, that will be your answer.’ I’m still waiting.

23
Arthur, Lord Granar, 6 January 1986.

24
Léon Doulet, 5 January 1986.

25
Foreign Office, 6 August 1986.