ABSTRACT

A lengthy most secret survey of ‘Considerations affecting SO2’s operations’, signed by Gubbins in midsummer 1941, concluded that

His view of communications was borne out from the other side. One of the most iniquitous of the Gestapo’s Paris staff commented later on the account of the liaison system of an intelligence circuit (CND), given him by an agent under pressure: ‘That interested me enormously, for my object was always to break up the liaisons, even more than arresting the chaps; what could they do without communications? I left plenty of [his] colleagues free; they were of no interest to me.’2