AN OVERLOOKED TELEGRAM?
Nadat Dessing naar Engeland was teruggekeerd kwam dit door hem verzonden telegram boven water.
Het luidt als volgt:
INITIAL WORK HAS BEEN DONE
SEA COMMUNICATIONS IMPROVED
NO WT MAN HAS APPEARED
THINGS HAVE GONE WRONG WITH MOST OTHER PARACHUTISTS.
HAVE IMPROVED DOCUMENT FOR 33 CABINET.
ESSENTIAL COME BACK TO LONDON
AM THREE MONTHS IN BRUSSELS
TRYING TO COME BACK.
SENT INSTRUCTIONS VIA BELGIAN GOVERNMENT TO BRUSSELS
FORM 23
Dit telegram is door een SIS WT Operator in Brussel naar SIS Homestation gestuurd ergens gedurende het laatste kwartaal van 1942!
SIS kon dus lezen dat er iets mis was in Nederland, maar heeft geen verdere actie richting SOE ondernomen.
Is dit bewust gebeurd om SOE een loer te draaien? Gezien de verhoudingen tussen beide departementen lijkt dit niet onmogelijk.
Dit telegram had de vermoedens van Leo Marks kunnen bevestigen dat er in Holland iets goed mis was en hij had hier zeker actie op ondernomen en dat had veel levens van de nadien gedropte agenten kunnen besparen.
This telegram was sent by a SIS WT Operator in Brussels to SIS Homestation sometime during the last quarter of 1942! SIS could therefore see that something was wrong in the Netherlands, but took no further action towards SOE.
Was this done deliberately to trick SOE? Given the relations between the two departments, this does not seem impossible.
This telegram could have confirmed Leo Marks’ suspicions that something was seriously wrong in Holland, and he certainly would have taken action on it, which could have saved many lives of the agents who were dropped afterwards.
Het luidt als volgt:
INITIAL WORK HAS BEEN DONE
SEA COMMUNICATIONS IMPROVED
NO WT MAN HAS APPEARED
THINGS HAVE GONE WRONG WITH MOST OTHER PARACHUTISTS.
HAVE IMPROVED DOCUMENT FOR 33 CABINET.
ESSENTIAL COME BACK TO LONDON
AM THREE MONTHS IN BRUSSELS
TRYING TO COME BACK.
SENT INSTRUCTIONS VIA BELGIAN GOVERNMENT TO BRUSSELS
FORM 23
Dit telegram is door een SIS WT Operator in Brussel naar SIS Homestation gestuurd ergens gedurende het laatste kwartaal van 1942!
SIS kon dus lezen dat er iets mis was in Nederland, maar heeft geen verdere actie richting SOE ondernomen.
Is dit bewust gebeurd om SOE een loer te draaien? Gezien de verhoudingen tussen beide departementen lijkt dit niet onmogelijk.
Dit telegram had de vermoedens van Leo Marks kunnen bevestigen dat er in Holland iets goed mis was en hij had hier zeker actie op ondernomen en dat had veel levens van de nadien gedropte agenten kunnen besparen.
This telegram was sent by a SIS WT Operator in Brussels to SIS Homestation sometime during the last quarter of 1942! SIS could therefore see that something was wrong in the Netherlands, but took no further action towards SOE.
Was this done deliberately to trick SOE? Given the relations between the two departments, this does not seem impossible.
This telegram could have confirmed Leo Marks’ suspicions that something was seriously wrong in Holland, and he certainly would have taken action on it, which could have saved many lives of the agents who were dropped afterwards.
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