Action against the Red Army sage read, "that you are doing usiness British Secret Service General Staff. Holland was the scene of in Holland without our help lrsenng Havi this plot as well, and the British Intelli- been, as we were, your sole rep resenta- lie decided to challenge Cite arch- genet Service was again its victim. lives for a considerable period of time, enemy, the British secret service itself. This particular operation went under we regard We were on tile very eve of tile second tile code name Englandspiei or England Yet this will not prevent sus, should fyou World War and large-scale preparations Gant. It began in September 1940 and ever decide to pay us a visit oil a far were made to gear our work to new lasted until April 1944. During that greater scale, from receiving you with tasks. Just then we discovered that flue period the German secret service ac- file hospitality which we showed your British had beaten us to the punch. They tually dominated file major British es- agents." had an intricate spy net all ready for pionage activities in Western Europe. This last message was dated April 1. the war, established in The Vague the We directed British spies at will. We 1944. After that the 18 fake transmitters Netherlands, with tentacles reaching ordered supplies fronrBritain, called for went off the air and never opened up deep into the Reicli. This net was sup- agents and information, as if we were again. posed to conduct espionage and sabotage operating within the offices of Messrs. By then, IIeydrich, too, was buried and during the war. so it became imperative Blunt, Bingham & Cothe phony first forgotten. But in his place appeared a for us to Best goy it before it could Ire- which served as the cover for this branch still greater genius, although lie lacked come dangerous, of Britain's wartime secret service. Heydrich's bitter determination and British spy headquarters in The Hague A few figures might indicate the nag- ruthless zeal. He was Werner Schellen- were in charge of two rallier lipoid- nitude of this operation and especially its berg, the man who Lured the British looking mein. but we knew that they were success. While it lasted, we called for agents to their dooni and who, in effect, ace operatives of the British Intelligence 190 parachute drops and received 95 of controlled the Englan.dspie(. Service in fact. members of Britain's them. 1Ve obtained from our British At the head of the German secret serv- professional intelligence officers, corps. "friends" 570 containers and 150 parcels ice. Werner Schellenberg knew that lie One was a "civilian" or political agent with urore liras 7.000 pounds of explo- was representing a lost cause. His activi- nanted Payne S. hest. The other was an sixes, 3.000 Stun guns. 300 Brett gums, ties were devoted to an effort to bring old-timer in military intelligence, (.all- 2.000 hand grenades, 75 radio transmit- the war to an earlier end. In the end, lain Stevens. Hcydrich decided to sirikt' tors, over half a million bullets, 5.000 lie was a failure. Although lie was only at tlfent and to destroy their whole net- revolvers. bicycles, raincoats, rubber 33 years old when Germany surrendered work by removing its doable head. }roots, uniform pieces-everything we unconditionally, Schellenberg was an Ile picked one of his deputies, a voting needed ourselves to equip our own secret aged and broken man. with no will to 'intellectual named Werner Schelfell ber R g- anenl.s' live. to prepare the grorurti. Scheilenbergwent We also called for and received sam- It was under Scbellenberg's direction to The Hague and established contact Ales of it weapon which the British and guidance that I moved up in the with Best and Stevens as a representa- guarded as lilt, apple of their eyes: a hierarchy until I became
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