HS9/1413/2
27-3-44
ORDERS FOR: VAN DER STEEG CPOY no. 1
MOST SECRET
INFORMATION.
In preparation for, and during the invasion of Western Europe by the United Nations there are many useful and important tasks which can be performed by loyal patriots in HOLLAND. For the execution of many of these tasks members of organisations already existing in the country, and of the general public, can be usefully employed. The task of maintaining WT communication with this country can be considered as one of the most important.
a) Operation Name. The name of your operation is BEZIQUE and you will be known by this name at the station
of your departure. You will never use this name when you are in the field.
b) Code name in the Field. (I) Your filed name will be FRANS. This is the only name you or your organiser should
use in messages from the field and it is the name by which you will be known by
other members of your organisation.
(II) The operational name of your organiser at the departure station is DRAUGHTS,
and his name in the field and in telegrams is HANS.
INTENTION.
You will go to HOLLAND as a WT-Operator to your Chief, who will act as liaison between HOLLAND and LONDON. You will take orders from him on all matters of mutual concern, but you have authority to your own discretion in all matters concerning your own WT work. All measures which you may consider necessary for the safe guarding of your channel of communication will not be interfered with anyone.
In principle, your organiser will do all the encoding of his messages to us and the decoding of our messages to him. He has his own code and you should therefore only use yours for messages relating to wireless matters and the eventual acknowledgement of our messages by Broadcast. He should explain to you what his prefix is so that you will understand which messages are destined for him and which for you.
METHOD.
You and your Chief will be dropped together in Holland at a point which will be explained to you prior to your departure on the first favourable night in march/April 44. You will, immediately upon lading, bury your parachutes and equipment and, if you wish, your weapons. The wireless sets you will bury separately and, if possible, in such a place as can be easily recognised so that they can be collected by a third party if necessary.
When you have done this you will proceed to the safe house to which your organiser will take you,,, from which address your Chief will give you every assistance in establishing yourself at some suitable place and in acclimatising yourself in HOLLAND.
a) Contacts. Initial contact on landing see Annexe I.
b) Resistance. Your organiser will be responsible for installing you in a safe house and later safe houses from
which you can transmit.
ADMINISTRATION.
You will carry with you the sum of Hfl. 5000 for your own use.
a) Packages - Equipment - Camouflage.
(I) Your personal baggage will consist of one briefcase.
(II) You will be supplied with the following amount of small money for your immediate needs: Hfl. 502,-.
(III) The remainder of your money, viz. Hfl.4500 has been camouflaged in your briefcase.
(IV) Your organiser will have with him the sum of Hfl. 5000 for himself and Hfl. 50.000 for the organisation,
camouflaged in a briefcase.
(V) Your code (One Time Pad) and reserve poem, together with see Annexe II have been camouflaged in your
briefcase.
(VI) All your baggage and material will be packed, together with that of your organiser in ONE package, which
will be parachuted with you.
b) Cover Story. See Annexe III.
c) Clothing. You will have received this in accordance with your requirements.
d) Equipment. You will be interviewed as to your requirements for the field and receive these and your
parachuting equipment at the departure station. See Annexe IV.
e) Documents. You have been issued with a Dutch identity card.
f) Return to this country. You will be interviewed by an officer specialising in escape routes and be given all the
necessary information you may require. see Annexe V.
COMMUNICATIONS.
You will take with you two WT sets complete with crystals, plan and codes. You should so establish yourself so that these two sets are never in the same place, and also vary your houses of transmission.
a) In the Field. You will use the various methods which you have been taught for communications between
yourself and your organiser. Postboxes, cut-outs, etc. You may arrange with him various signals
of danger.
b) Wireless. You will establish contact by WT with ENGLAND as soon as you consider it safe to do so. Your Chief
will encode all his own messages and pass these to you by cut-outs for transmission. You will use
your own code for all messages to us relating to wireless matters and for all acknowledging, say
once a week, receipt of our messages transmitted by broadcast. records or copies of messages
exchanged with us should not be kept.
c) Prefixes. In all our messages to your Chief we will use his prefix which is, see Annexe VI. He will not use his
prefix in messages to us.
d) Security. You alone will judge the days on which you will transmit, and you will inform your Chief if you
consider his messages are too long or too numerous for you to handle safely.
e) Codes. In your Annexe VII you will find a copy of your reserve poems which you must memorise. You will
also receive microprints of your special code which you will take with you.
f) Plan. You will take with you a microprint of your WT plan as per annexe VIII.
g) Broadcasting. You will also receive a microprint of your Broadcast pan as per Annexe IX.
h) Security. If we have reason to suppose that you have been arrested and that the Germans are working your
transmitter, we will aks you an "innocent" question. If you are safe you will give the correct answer,
but if we do not receive the correct answer we shall presume that you are in enemy hands. See
annexe X for question and reply.
INNOCENT LETTERS.
In the vent of an emergency, such as the breakdown of WT communication and loss of contact, you have been given an address to which you may forward "innocent letters". By this method you can advise us of urgent news and also when you can be contacted.
(I) Code. You will use the convention which you have been taught, see Annexe XI.
(II) Address. You will send your innocent letters to the address as per Annexe V.
(III) Signatures. You will sign your innocent letters FRANS. If we write to you we will sign: KEES.
EMERGENCY ADDRESS.
It is important that we should remain in contact with you and if possible you should give us an address before you leave for the field. If you are unable to do this you should let us know where it is, at the first possible opportunity.
Password: See Annexe V.
Reply: ,, ,,
FINANCIAL ARRANGEMENTS.
Your rank on leaving this country will be Sergeant, and your salary will be credited monthly to your account by the Dutch Authorities.
LONDON, 17th March 1944.
ORDERS FOR: VAN DER STEEG CPOY no. 1
MOST SECRET
INFORMATION.
In preparation for, and during the invasion of Western Europe by the United Nations there are many useful and important tasks which can be performed by loyal patriots in HOLLAND. For the execution of many of these tasks members of organisations already existing in the country, and of the general public, can be usefully employed. The task of maintaining WT communication with this country can be considered as one of the most important.
a) Operation Name. The name of your operation is BEZIQUE and you will be known by this name at the station
of your departure. You will never use this name when you are in the field.
b) Code name in the Field. (I) Your filed name will be FRANS. This is the only name you or your organiser should
use in messages from the field and it is the name by which you will be known by
other members of your organisation.
(II) The operational name of your organiser at the departure station is DRAUGHTS,
and his name in the field and in telegrams is HANS.
INTENTION.
You will go to HOLLAND as a WT-Operator to your Chief, who will act as liaison between HOLLAND and LONDON. You will take orders from him on all matters of mutual concern, but you have authority to your own discretion in all matters concerning your own WT work. All measures which you may consider necessary for the safe guarding of your channel of communication will not be interfered with anyone.
In principle, your organiser will do all the encoding of his messages to us and the decoding of our messages to him. He has his own code and you should therefore only use yours for messages relating to wireless matters and the eventual acknowledgement of our messages by Broadcast. He should explain to you what his prefix is so that you will understand which messages are destined for him and which for you.
METHOD.
You and your Chief will be dropped together in Holland at a point which will be explained to you prior to your departure on the first favourable night in march/April 44. You will, immediately upon lading, bury your parachutes and equipment and, if you wish, your weapons. The wireless sets you will bury separately and, if possible, in such a place as can be easily recognised so that they can be collected by a third party if necessary.
When you have done this you will proceed to the safe house to which your organiser will take you,,, from which address your Chief will give you every assistance in establishing yourself at some suitable place and in acclimatising yourself in HOLLAND.
a) Contacts. Initial contact on landing see Annexe I.
b) Resistance. Your organiser will be responsible for installing you in a safe house and later safe houses from
which you can transmit.
ADMINISTRATION.
You will carry with you the sum of Hfl. 5000 for your own use.
a) Packages - Equipment - Camouflage.
(I) Your personal baggage will consist of one briefcase.
(II) You will be supplied with the following amount of small money for your immediate needs: Hfl. 502,-.
(III) The remainder of your money, viz. Hfl.4500 has been camouflaged in your briefcase.
(IV) Your organiser will have with him the sum of Hfl. 5000 for himself and Hfl. 50.000 for the organisation,
camouflaged in a briefcase.
(V) Your code (One Time Pad) and reserve poem, together with see Annexe II have been camouflaged in your
briefcase.
(VI) All your baggage and material will be packed, together with that of your organiser in ONE package, which
will be parachuted with you.
b) Cover Story. See Annexe III.
c) Clothing. You will have received this in accordance with your requirements.
d) Equipment. You will be interviewed as to your requirements for the field and receive these and your
parachuting equipment at the departure station. See Annexe IV.
e) Documents. You have been issued with a Dutch identity card.
f) Return to this country. You will be interviewed by an officer specialising in escape routes and be given all the
necessary information you may require. see Annexe V.
COMMUNICATIONS.
You will take with you two WT sets complete with crystals, plan and codes. You should so establish yourself so that these two sets are never in the same place, and also vary your houses of transmission.
a) In the Field. You will use the various methods which you have been taught for communications between
yourself and your organiser. Postboxes, cut-outs, etc. You may arrange with him various signals
of danger.
b) Wireless. You will establish contact by WT with ENGLAND as soon as you consider it safe to do so. Your Chief
will encode all his own messages and pass these to you by cut-outs for transmission. You will use
your own code for all messages to us relating to wireless matters and for all acknowledging, say
once a week, receipt of our messages transmitted by broadcast. records or copies of messages
exchanged with us should not be kept.
c) Prefixes. In all our messages to your Chief we will use his prefix which is, see Annexe VI. He will not use his
prefix in messages to us.
d) Security. You alone will judge the days on which you will transmit, and you will inform your Chief if you
consider his messages are too long or too numerous for you to handle safely.
e) Codes. In your Annexe VII you will find a copy of your reserve poems which you must memorise. You will
also receive microprints of your special code which you will take with you.
f) Plan. You will take with you a microprint of your WT plan as per annexe VIII.
g) Broadcasting. You will also receive a microprint of your Broadcast pan as per Annexe IX.
h) Security. If we have reason to suppose that you have been arrested and that the Germans are working your
transmitter, we will aks you an "innocent" question. If you are safe you will give the correct answer,
but if we do not receive the correct answer we shall presume that you are in enemy hands. See
annexe X for question and reply.
INNOCENT LETTERS.
In the vent of an emergency, such as the breakdown of WT communication and loss of contact, you have been given an address to which you may forward "innocent letters". By this method you can advise us of urgent news and also when you can be contacted.
(I) Code. You will use the convention which you have been taught, see Annexe XI.
(II) Address. You will send your innocent letters to the address as per Annexe V.
(III) Signatures. You will sign your innocent letters FRANS. If we write to you we will sign: KEES.
EMERGENCY ADDRESS.
It is important that we should remain in contact with you and if possible you should give us an address before you leave for the field. If you are unable to do this you should let us know where it is, at the first possible opportunity.
Password: See Annexe V.
Reply: ,, ,,
FINANCIAL ARRANGEMENTS.
Your rank on leaving this country will be Sergeant, and your salary will be credited monthly to your account by the Dutch Authorities.
LONDON, 17th March 1944.
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