soc.history.war.world-war-ii

"William Black" wrote:

>"Rich Rostrom" wrote:
>> Fortunately, theGestapo ... never realized he was...
>> defecting, nor made him talk about what he had told the British.
>
>Which is just too lucky to believe.
>You'd have thought the British would have promptly knocked him off...

They considered that - but there
were reasons not to; he was useful
in other respects. Also, what if
they miss?

And while they were still thinking
about it, the Gestapo snatched him.

>unless they had some means of feeding information into the
>German intelligence system...

That was the whole point of double-cross!

>especially as they were almost certainly reading the Gestapo mail...

Gestapo traffic was land-lines, and not
much intercepted, AIUI. However they
did pick up a message about Jebsen which
stated that he was getting chopped for
fiddling his expenses, and _nothing_ _else_.

(Huge sigh of relief in Britain.)

It was probably an Abwehr message to the
Madrid station.
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