Larry Loftis - Code Name: Lise

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SPINDLE Circuit (Special Operations Executive, or SOE)

Marie-Lou Blanc (field name, Suzanne)local operative

Lieutenant Francis Cammaerts (Roger)head of JOCKEY circuit, replacing SPINDLE circuit

Captain Peter Churchill (Michel, Raoul)head of SPINDLE circuit

Jean and Simone Cottet (Jean and Simone)operators of Htel de la Poste

Jacques Latour (Jacques)local operative, courier

Baron Henri de Malval (Antoine)local operative, owner of HQ Villa Isabelle

Adolphe (Alec) Rabinovitch (Arnaud)radio operator

Odette Sansom (Lise)courier

CARTE Circuit (French Resistance)

Roger Bardet (Chaillan)Major Fragers lieutenant and courier, also of DONKEYMAN circuit

Louis le Belge (Le Belge)courier

Major Henri Frager (Paul, Louba)Andr Girards lieutenant; later, chief of DONKEYMAN circuit after termination of CARTE circuit

Andr Girard (Carte)head of CARTE circuit

Lejeune (Lejeune)local operative

Andr Marsac (End, Marsac)Marseille chief, Fragers deputy

Jacques Riquet (Riquet)courier

Suzanne (Lucienne)Marsacs secretary, courier

British Special Operations Executive (SOE), French Section

Vera Atkins assistant to Maurice Buckmaster; intelligence officer

Major/Colonel Maurice Buckmaster F Section head

Captain Selwyn Jepson F Section recruiting officer

Pierre de Vomcourt (Lucas)agent

British Intelligence

Secret Intelligence Service (MI6)

German Intelligence

Abwehr (Military Intelligence Service)

Sergeant Hugo Bleicher (Monsieur Jean, Colonel Henri)field security policeman working under supervision of the Abwehr

Major Hans Josef Kieffer Paris chief of Sicherheitsdienst

Colonel Oscar Reile Abwehr III F Paris chief (Hugo Bleichers supervisor)

Sicherheitsdienst (SD)Nazi Party intelligence

Others

Gestapo (Nazi Secret Police)

Jean Lucien Keiffer (Kiki, Desir)agent for INTERALLI and DONKEYMAN circuits

Father Paul Steinert chaplain, Fresnes Prison

Fritz Shren commandant of Ravensbrck concentration camp

Trude female guard at Fresnes Prison

B e regular and orderly in your life, Flaubert had said, that you may be violent and original in your work. Such is the prescription for spies. Odette Sansom didnt drink, smoke, or swear, and to the casual observer she was quite ordinary, perhaps even boring. Yet she was a trained killer. She feared neither danger nor dagger, interrogation nor torture. She didnt think twice about confronting German generals or commandants, and often placed principle before prudence.

Like her colleagues in the Special Operations Executive, she signed up for the war knowing that arrest (and execution) was a very real possibilityalmost one in two for F Section couriers. But what her grandfather had told her as a child was set in stone: she was to do her duty when the time came.

And so she did.

WHEN I FINISHED WRITING Into the Lions Mouth in 2015, I was a bit saddened because I was certain Id never find a more thrilling story than Dusko Popovs. In my opinion, he was World War IIs greatest spy, and perhaps the greatest spy in history. After all, he had more actual sub-agents (eight), was involved in more operations (ten), and accomplished more (Pearl Harbor warning, MIDAS, D-Day deception, Yugoslav escape line, discovery of German agent CICERO, and the Monty ruse of Operation Copperhead) than any other agent.

Yet I had to find material for another book.

For months on end I scoured the UK National Archives and my World War II resources and came up empty. I looked closely at other British double agents of the war to see if there was enough material for a book. GARBO (Juan Pujol) was out because several books had already been written about him. I considered double agent BRUTUS (Roman Garby-Czerniawski), organizer of the INTERALLI circuit, as he was a compelling figure and at one point had a circuit of a hundred agents. For months I dug into his story, which led me to German secret police sergeant Hugo Bleicher. I was fascinated by Hugos penetration of INTERALLI, and how he single-handedly destroyed it. When I read Hugos memoir, Colonel Henris Story , I noticed that he detailed penetration of another circuit, one involving an Allied spy named Lise.