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Jews in Modern Iraq (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2012),
112–25; Hayyim J. Cohen, ‘The Anti-Jewish Farhud in Baghdad, 1941’,
Middle Eastern Studies 3, no. 1 (1966): 2–17; Nissim Rejwan, The Jews of
Iraq: 3000 Years of History and Culture (Boulder, CO: Westview Press,
1985), 223; Somerset de Chair, The Golden Carpet (New York: Harcourt
Brace, 1945), 127.
- CICI Weekly Intelligence Summary and Précis of Information No. 18, 14
June 1941, AIR 29/2504, TNA.
- Youth organizations in Iraq, Appendix D, CICI Weekly Intelligence
Summary and Précis of Information No. 18, 14 June 1941, AIR 29/2504,
TNA; De Chair, Golden Carpet, 55 passim.
- Ibid.
- Cornwallis to Eden, 23 March 1943, FO 371/35010, TNA.
- Zionist organization in Iraq, CX report, 24 May 1943, WO 201/2866,
TNA.
- No SOE symbol on record. Sereni’s alternative cover names were Ehud,
Shmel Barda, and Samuel Barda. See alphabetical listing in John Grehan
and Martin Mace, Unearthing Churchill’s Secret Army: The Official List of
SOE Casualties and Their Stories (Barnsley: Pen and Sword Military, 2012).
- Ruth Bondy, The Emissary: A Life of Enzo Sereni (Boston, MA: Little,
Brown, 1977), 171–94.
- About Solel Boneh in Iraq and at Abadan, see Yehouda Shenhav, The Arab
Jews: A Postcolonial Reading of Nationalism, Religion, and Ethnicity
(Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2006), 33 passim.
- Bondy, The Emissary, 195–7. Sereni’s cover exemplifies a rare kind of non-
oppositional complex agency involving ‘co-equal cover,’ where the mani-
fest role of an operative is as genuine as the covert role, or where the
operative genuinely performs multiple discrete covert roles under the same
cover. This effective mechanism allowed Sereni to pursue Marxist antifas-
cism and Zionism simultaneously while under robust British cover.
- Ibid., 205; Moshe Gat, The Jewish Exodus from Iraq, 1948–1951 (London:
Frank Cass, 1997), 24–5.
- Bondy, The Emissary, 212–14.
- See Douglas A. Boyd, ‘Sharq al-Adna/The Voice of Britain: The UK’s
“Secret” Arabic Radio Station and Suez War Propaganda Disaster’, Gazette:
The International Journal for Communication Studies 65, no. 6 (2003):
443–5.
- See ‘Jewish Parachutists from Palestine’, Holocaust Encyclopaedia, United
States Holocaust Memorial Museum, https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/con-
tent/en/article/jewish-parachutists-from-palestine; ‘Zionist Parachutists’,
Zionism and Israel—Encyclopedic Dictionary, http://www.zionism-israel.
com/dic/Parachutists.htm; Steven Kippax, ‘List of SOE Personnel without
P/Fs’ (based on HS 9, TNA), unpublished MS., SOE Group, n.d.
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