The mutiny that never was : the Special Operations Executive and the failure of Operation 'Kitchenmaid' / James Crossland.
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Intelligence and National Security Vol 28 No 6, December 2013, pp.808-823 (99)Summary: In Greece in 1944 two thousand German troops proposed to desert the Wehrmacht and join SOE and Greek partisans. This article describes who the German troops were, looks at relations between SOE Cairo and the Foreign Office in London, considers SOE's response to the proposal, how the proposal became part of a wider plan to foster insurrection, why time scales slipped, and the ultimate failure of the entire project.
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| Journal Article | Mindef Library & Info Centre Journals | INTELLIGENCE OPERATIONS (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Not for loan | 42002-1001 |
In Greece in 1944 two thousand German troops proposed to desert the Wehrmacht and join SOE and Greek partisans. This article describes who the German troops were, looks at relations between SOE Cairo and the Foreign Office in London, considers SOE's response to the proposal, how the proposal became part of a wider plan to foster insurrection, why time scales slipped, and the ultimate failure of the entire project.
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