ABSTRACT
After the successes achieved in early August, intelligence warnings of illegal arrivals dried up. But D.l in HMS Chequers wasted no time after his arrival in warning his ships’ companies that the policy of deportation to Cyprus would bring about a change of temper amongst immigrants. In anticipation of greater opposition he arranged for ships to be issued with glass tear-gas dispensers of the kind supplied to the Army for anti-riot purposes. The return of Fede and events during her arrest on 2 September soon demonstrated that D.1’s forebodings were all too true and that a far more difficult phase of the operation had begun.
