... SOE do not enjoy an entirely high degree of eficiency in their role of
planning and overseeing some operations - In 42 to 43 they sent a total of 53 agents each with radio - parachuted straight into the hands of the waiting Gestapo - many would die - in what the Germans called the 'England Spiel' - whereby they had intercepted the first arrivals and 'turned' them. The unbeleivable height of lunacy achieved when one of the first captured agents to be turned left out the pre-arranged ommision of a check word to indicate he was transmitting while
under arrest - only to have transmitted back from SOE "You left out your check word - Dont forget it next time" !
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