ABSTRACT
SOE’s signals officer at Gibraltar, Squadron-Leader Mallory (real name Hugh MalloryFalconer), and his staff had considerable difficulty in establishing the required W/T network to link all the US consular posts in French North Africa to Tangiers, let alone to Gibraltar. OSS brought various operators to Tangiers, where Mallory had made arrangements for them to be instructed in operating their sets, and sets were delivered to OSS in Tangiers for distribution. But by the beginning of September a major complication had arisen: the SOE signals station at the western end of the tunnels in the Rock was able to send and receive signals to and from Tangiers, Casablanca and Oran quite satisfactorily, but contact with Algiers was very temperamental and Tunis permanently out of communication.1
