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tions, jammed air defense radars, and dropped their bombs with pin-
point accuracy, without a single loss, leading many to conclude that
the Israelis had used local agents, maybe including Bazoft, to under-
take the necessary reconnaissance.BEAULIEU.The estate of Beaulieu in the New Forest, owned by Lord
Montagu, was occupied during World War II bySpecial Operations
Executive to accommodate the Group ‘‘B’’ Special Training
Schools, among them the Rings (STS 31), Harford House (STS 32a),
Saltmarch (STS 32b), Blackbridge (STS 32c), the House on the
Shore (STS 33), the Drokes (STS 34), the Vineyards (STS 35), Boar-
mans (STS 36), Warren House (STS 37a), and Clobb Gorse (STS
37b).
BEAUMANOR HALL.The estate of Beaumanor Hall in Leicester-
shire, the ancestral home of the Jerrick family since 1512, was requisi-
tioned in 1939 and taken over in 1942 by theWar Office Y Group
(WOYG), designatedMI8, when Fort Bridgewoods, Chatham, came
under attack by the Luftwaffe. By 1944 it accommodated 196 indi-
vidual intercept desks, operating 24 hours a day and concentrating on
the enemy’sEnigmatraffic. Beaumanor Hall, with the neighboring
20 acres covered with massive aerial antennas, was staffed by a com-
bination of civilian General Post Office and military Auxiliary Terri-
torial Service operators, and it was connected by a secure teleprinter
landline toBletchley Park. In 1943 Beaumanor Hall also became
part of a high-frequencydirection-findingnetwork to triangulate
enemy stations.
BEEVOR, JACK.Educated at Winchester and New College, Oxford,
Jack Beevor became a solicitor in 1931 and joined the army at the
outbreak of World War II. In 1940 he was transferred toSpecial Op-
erations Executive(SOE) and in January 1941 posted to Lisbon, but
in June 1942 he was compromised by aSecret Intelligence Service
source who had been arrested by the notorious Portuguese Interna-
tional Police and had identified his flat as a safe house where he had
attended meetings. Beevor was withdrawn to London, where he
worked as an assistant toSir Charles Hambroand later joined the
planning staff. At the end of 1943 he was sent toCairoas a staff