Mentioning the 'Englandspiel' tragedy was to indicate that SOE was
at times seemingly run on amatuer lines - the Dutch section fiasco being an example of incompetence resulting in the deaths of scores of brave agents and others.
If the British army officer Maj C Blizzard in SOE who failed to recognise the importance and act over the 'forgotten security check' was typical of the standard of 'intelligence' recruited within SOE then there is every reason to suspect that the SOE planned raid on Amiens prison could well have been another serious SOE gaff - resulting in the unnecessary deaths of many brave men.
In the Burgess and Maclain affair British intelligence would repeat such incompetence when in later years they were warned by Canadian Intelligence that a British University trained traitor had infiltrated the highly secret Atomic research establishment - but again chose to ignore the tip off.
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