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1940 and was arrested almost immediately by the Home Guard,
alerted by local farm workers. He was escorted toCamp 020, where
he was promised that if he cooperated fully, and disclosed the name
of his friend, anotherAbwehragent who was to follow him shortly,
both their lives would be spared.summerpromptly named Wulf
Schmidt (subsequently codenamedtate) and arrangements were
made for his reception.
summerwas transferred to an MI5 safe house inHinxton, Cam-
bridgeshire, for Christmas 1940, but although he was accompanied
bytate, he suffered from depression and when he was returned to
Camp 020 he slashed his wrists in a suicide attempt. When he was
returned to Hinxton in January, he tried to escape and stole one of
his guards’ motorcycles, heading for the coast. He was soon caught
and spent the remainder of the war at Camp 020R, Huntercombe.
After the war he was deported to Sweden, where he died in 1975 after
spending the last years of his life in a wheelchair, failing to obtain a
war disability pension from the German government on the grounds
that he had been injured during his parachute landing.SUB-COMMITTEE ON SECURITY SERVICE PRIORITIES
AND PERFORMANCE (SOSSPP).Following theSecurity Com-
missionreport into the management lapses highlighted by the con-
viction of Michael Bettaney in 1983 and the inadequate
explanations provided by the thendirector-general of the Security
Service, Sir John Jones, this Cabinet subcommittee was created to
taskMI5and monitor its performance. Chaired by an official from
the Home Office (as the sponsoring department), it consists of repre-
sentatives from the Foreign Office, Ministry of Defence, Treasury,
Cabinet Office, Office of Public Service, Department of Health and
Social Security, Scottish Office, Northern Ireland Office,GCHQ,
and MI5.
SUNSHINE. MI5code name for an operation approved by Prime Min-
isterAnthony Edento find, isolate, and if necessary assassinate Col-
onel George Grivas, the EOKA leader during the Cyprus
Emergency. The plan hatched by MI5 and theSecret Intelligence
Service(SIS) included the deployment of an SIS officer with a for-
midable record in theSpecial Air ServiceinItalyduring the war,