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Section D for Destruction

Section D for Destruction

Forerunner of SOE

Malcolm Atkin

First published in Great Britain in 2017 by

PEN & SWORD MILITARY

An imprint of

Pen & Sword Books Ltd

47 Church Street

Barnsley

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Copyright Malcolm Atkin, 2017

ISBN 978-1-47389-260-6

eISBN 978-1-47389-262-0

Mobi ISBN 978-1-47389-261-3

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Contents

Online Appendices ( https://independent.academia.edu/MalcolmAtkin )

Appendix 1. The D Scheme, March 1940

Appendix 2. Officers and Agents of Section D, SIS, 19381940

List of Plates

Laurence Grand (18981975).

Neville Chamberlain (18691940).

Julius Hanau (18851943).

Clara Holmes (18951992).

Viscount Bearsted (18821948).

Anthony Samuel (19172001).

Gerard Holdsworth (19041985).

Dr Chaim Weizmann (18741952) with his wife Vera.

Broadway Buildings, Westminster. First HQ of Section D.

St Ermins Hotel, where Section D had offices and an apartment.

Section D Anti-HitlerStalin Pact propaganda leaflet distributed from Sweden.

Section D propaganda leaflet intended to divide the German army and the SS.

Section D leaflet, Schutzmafinahmen gegen die Inflation (Measures against Inflation).

Section D pamphlet, Alles frs kind (Everything for the child).

Section D funded Das Wahre Deutschland (The True Germany).

Section D leaflet, Weder Hitler noch Stalin! (Neither Hitler nor Stalin!)

Skoda Armament Works, Pilsen, 1938.

Switch no. 10 Delay Time Pencil and Switch no. 9 L Delay.

French plans to create road blocks by dynamiting trees across roads.

Ploesti oil refinery under attack, 1943.

Kasan Pass, Galati, Romania the Iron Gate (September 1940).

Barges and tugs at the port of Galatz, Romania, November 1940.

Port of Narvik, October 1940.

Ture Nermann, publisher of Swedish anti-Nazi newspaper Trots Allt .

A 1930s postcard of the port of Oxelsund.

Section D explosives found in the Windsor Tea Company cellar.

The fishing boat Wailet being refitted as the Lady (V.2.S) for the May 1940 Norwegian expedition.

Skipper of the V.2.S, Karsten Wang, and Section D officer James Chaworth-Musters.

Germany What Next used as Section D code book.

Colt .32 automatic pistol.

Thompson sub-machine gun.

Machine-gun rattle as issued to the HDS.

Tyesule paraffin incendiary.

List of Figures

Section D administrative codes

Types of materials supplied by Aston House in mid-1940

Explosives manufactured and distributed by Section D up to September 1940

Map of the Balkans, 1939

Details of Norwegian Expedition Members

Known organising officers of the Home Defence Scheme

Inventory of Home Defence Scheme dumps, 31 May 1940

Material supplied by Section D to Home Defence Scheme and Auxiliary Units during July 1940

Section D Officers in the senior management team of SOE

Extract of supplies by region to 25 August 1940

Acknowledgements

The starting point for this book was the manuscript history of Section D by SOE, largely written by a former Section D officer, Anthony Samuel ( and provided valuable insight into the Rickman affair. Paul McCue provided information on Marcel Clech in advance of his own publication as part of the Valenay 104 project and Michael Van Moppes shared his knowledge of the diamond-processing industry and his family history.

It was a particular pleasure to meet the daughter of Laurence Grand, Lady Bessborough, and his grandsons Hon. Matthew and Hon. Charles Ponsonby and to correspond with Jacqueline OHalloran, the daughter of Anthony Samuel. Such contact helped provide an insight into the character of extraordinary men.

Thanks are owed to all of the copyright owners of the illustration for permission to publish. These are acknowledged in the individual captions. Special thanks are owed to my daughter, Kate, for some of the photography, including the basis of the cover montage. Rupert Harding and Sarah Cook of Pen & Sword have been supportive throughout and guided the project expertly through the publication process. As ever, final thanks go to my wife Susanne, for her patience and support, for trying to correct my grammar and for the index.

The responsibility for any errors, speculation and conclusions remain my own.

Malcolm Atkin

March 2017

Abbreviations and Acronyms

AAF	Auxiliary Air Force.
Abwehr	German Military Intelligence.
BEF	British Expeditionary Force (France 19391940).
BSC	British Security Coordination (in USA).
BUF	British Union of Fascists.
CIGS	Chief of the Imperial General Staff.
COS	Chiefs of Staff Committee.
CSS	Chief of the Secret Service (SIS). Commonly further abbreviated to C.
DCO	Director of Combined Operations.
DDMI	Deputy Director of Military Intelligence.
DMI	Directorate of Military Intelligence.
DNI	Directorate of Naval Intelligence.
EH	Electra House: the Department of Publicity in Enemy Countries.
FSS	Field Security Sections of the Military Intelligence Corps. Until July 1940 part of D Division, MI5.
GHQ	General Headquarters, Home Forces.
GS(R)	General Service (Research). Original name for what became D/MI(R) and then MI(R).

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