DEWAVRIN, ANDRE ́• 151man embassy.gilbertnever elaborated on the nature of their rela-
tionship, but he acknowledged having maintained contact with the
enemy since ‘‘the late spring of 1943’’ because he was anxious about
his wife Jeannot, who continued to live at their apartment at 58 rue
Pergolese in Paris. Curiously,Hugo Bleicher, theAbwehr’scoun-
terintelligenceexpert, was her next-door neighbor at 56 rue Per-
golese. In the absence ofgilberthimself, who is alleged to have
been killed in an air crash in Laos on 21 November 1962, author Jean
Overton Fuller is his principal defender, and she is emphatic that De ́-
ricourt admitted only to having known Boemelberg before the war.
Boemelberg himself died in December 1946 after an accident near
his home in Germany, where he was living as a fugitive, and so never
gave evidence concerningl’affaire De ́ricourt.
The De ́ricourt controversy centers on his astonishing success in
ferrying SOE’s agents in and out of France on each full moon. That
De ́ricourt enlisted the SD’s help to accomplish his mission either
demonstrates his undeniably resourceful nature or his treachery.DEUTSCH, ARNOLD.An Austrian psychologist, Dr. Arnold Deutsch
was theNKVD’s illegalrezidentin London between February 1934
and 1937 when he was ostensibly undertaking postgraduate studies
at London University and living in Hampstead under his own name
with his wife and baby daughter. A cosmopolitan figure of great
charm, Deutsch was known to his recruits, of whom he found 20,
only asotto. Among those known to have been in contact with him
wereKim Philby,Jenifer Hart,Edith Tudor Hart,andJames
Klugmann.
According to information supplied toMI5byWalter Krivitskyin
February 1940, Deutsch had acted as a subordinate to the NKVD’s
legalrezidentat the Soviet embassy, Anton Schuster. According to
his NKVD file, which was declassified in Moscow in 1999, Deutsch
was codenamedstefan, used his wife to operate his wireless trans-
mitter, and had been sent to London to assist the illegal rezident,Al-
exander Orlov. He is believed to have died at sea when his ship, the
S.S.Donbass, carrying him on a mission to the United States, was
sunk by a U-boat in November 1942.
DEWAVRIN, ANDRE ́.An engineering officer who had taught at St.
Cyr before World War II, Andre ́Dewavrin joined the Free French