FRANCE• 195She reestablished contact with SIS and traveled to Lisbon for a
rendezvous withKenneth Cohen. Until they actually met face to
face, SIS had no idea that their star agent was a glamorous 32-year-
old mother of two. The circuit was known in London asalliance
but to Fourcade, who had assigned the name of an animal to each of
her agents, it was ‘‘Noah’s Ark,’’ which subsequently became the
title of her autobiography. In a passage from her memoirs, she de-
scribes the British traitor codenamedbla, an SIS agent who was ac-
cepted for training despite his record as a Fascist. Although she did
not reveal it in her book, his true name was Bradley Davis, and when
it became clear he had switched sides, she was eventually forced to
have him assassinated.
Thealliancenetwork grew to include some 3,000 members, op-
erating wireless transmitters, and in July 1943 she reluctantly agreed
to be flown out of France to escape the German net closing around
her. After the war Fourcade, a doughty supporter of President de
Gaulle, became a member of the European Parliament. She died in
July 1989.FOXLEY. Special Operations Executive code name for a plan
hatched by X Section to assassinate Adolf Hitler in 1944. Although
opposed by the section’s head, Colonel R. H. Thornley, various op-
tions were considered, including the infiltration of two snipers into
the grounds of the Berghoff at Berchtesgaden, ambushing Hitler’s
motorcade, or sabotaging his private train. The idea was eventually
abandoned, but the file was declassified in 1998. A similar plan to
eliminate members of Hitler’s entourage, including Joseph Goebbels,
was codenamedlittle foxleys.
FRANCE.The relationship between British Intelligence and its French
counterparts has not always been strained. During World War I, many
personal friendships were established with the Deuxie`me Bureau and
afterward bothMI5and theSecret Intelligence Service(SIS) main-
tained close links with the civilian and military intelligence organiza-
tions in Paris, where Biffy Dunderdalewas a popular head of
station. After the Nazi occupation in 1940, one official French
agency, the Service de Renseignements, and its cryptographic
branch, kept in clandestine contact with London until the Vichy re-
gime closed it down.