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of Brandenburgers campaigning in the Middle East, which they never did.
See also NSW, 63 passim.
- GCCS to ‘C,’ CX/MSS/S21, German Intentions South of Caucasus, 17
September 1942, HW 14/52, TNA.
- Gensicke, Mufti of Jerusalem, 85; Lukasz Hirszowicz, The Third Reich and
the Arab East (London: Routledge and K. Paul, 1966), 251–2, 254; Barry
Rubin and Wolfgang G. Schwanitz, Nazis, Islamists, and the Making of the
Modern Middle East (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2014), 145.
At one point during the preliminary phase of operations, for his own politi-
cal reasons, the ex-Mufti ordered all Palestinians in the DAL not to report
for duty. Consequently, they were all court-martialled and sentenced to
death; however, the ex-Mufti intervened and eventually secured their
release. Dieterich, ‘Rasid Ali al-Kaylani’: 61–2.
- Operationsziel, Grundgedanken der Kaukasusoperation, Besprechung bei
OQu I, 24 October 1941, OKW-KTB, MSG 158/38, BArch-MArch.
- Tenth Army Operation Instruction No. 29, Policy for Demolitions under
Plan WONDERFUL, 27 June 1942, WO 201/1369, TNA.
- There is much more to this extraordinary story, and the peculiar personal-
ity of Bedaux, about which I have written at length in O’Sullivan, ‘German
Covert Initiatives,’ 123–32; NSW, 192–9. See also Paul Leverkuehn,
German Military Intelligence (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1954),
8–9.
- Extract from GSI GHQ Persia and Iraq Force Special Sitrep No. 5d, 3
September 1943, WO 208/1588B, TNA; First detailed interrogation
report on Mueller, Agt by Major Edmund Tilley, G24 Other operations,
27 October 1943, WO 201/1402B, TNA. See also O’Sullivan, ‘German
Covert Initiatives,’ 164–5; NSW, 204.
- For more details of Operation REISERNTE, see RM 7/1074, BArch-
MArch; NSW, 208–10; O’Sullivan, ‘German Covert Initiatives,’168–70;
Gunther W. Gellermann, Tief im Hinterland des Gegners: Ausgewählte
Unternehmen deutscher Nachrichtendienste im Zweiten Weltkrieg (Bonn:
Bernard und Graefe, 1999), 128–39; and Cajus Bekker, Einzelkämpfer auf
See: Die deutschen Torpedoreiter, Froschmänner und Sprengbootpiloten im
Zweiten Weltkrieg (Oldenburg: Stalling, 1968), 105.
- For more details of Operation KINO, see Secret to HQ 2677 Regt (Prov)
OSS Caserta, 3 July 1945, KV 2/1486, TNA; Progress report on X-2
penetration cases run in the American occupied zone in Germany, Aug 45,
1 September 1945, United States Forces European Theater OSS Mission
for Germany, CIA 218273, CIA Research Tool (CREST) document,
NARA; Operations and agents of Leitstelle II Süd-Ost für Frontaufklärung,
25 July 1945, CIA 201692, CIA Research Tool (CREST) document,
NARA; Intermediate Interrogation Report CI-IIR/44, 18 January 1946,
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