ABSTRACT
Leslie Humphreys had returned from his assignment as Section D’s representative in Paris after parting on good terms with Brochu, head of the French Cinquième Bureau and Rivet, head of the Service de Renseignements, who had been moving from one château to another as the French government made its way through chaotic traffic to Bordeaux. He had been evacuated to England by a series of warships and on arrival in London he had, like Dunderdale of SIS, been told to organise a section to work back to France; in Humphrey’s case this was of course, for Section D, soon to be merged into SOE. Brochu actually sent a liaison officer to join him in London and within a month he had, with the help of this man and a variety of other sources, collected over two dozen agents and sent them to Brickendonbury Hall in Hertfordshire for training.1
