196 • FRANCK, LOUIS
In London, SIS’s P1production section, the Vichy French coun-
try section headed byKenneth Cohen, was subdivided into P1a
(North Africa), P1b (Non–Free French), and P1c (Free French). In
addition, Dunderdale’s P5 was in touch with the substantial Polish
networks in France, andJ. M. Langley’s P15 organized escape
routes (and later becameMI9). Naturally this profusion of intelli-
gence activity in France became a source of concern to General
Charles de Gaulle, to the point thatSpecial Operations Executive
(SOE) dedicated MO (later RF) Section to liaising with his Bureau
Central de Renseignements et d’Action. In addition, SOE ran the in-
dependentF Section, EU/P for the Poles in France, DF for the escape
lines, and AMF in Algeria operating into southern France. With so
many overlapping networks and given the added ingredient of French
politics, it is not surprising that relations between the competing
agencies and sections occasionally reached a breaking point.
After the war, SIS reestablished a station in Paris, with Barley Ali-
son and Tom Green, and MI5’s Jasper Harker was also given diplo-
matic status at the embassy. Liaison between SIS and the Service de
Documentation Exte ́rieure et de Contre-Espionage (later Direction-
Ge ́ne ́rale de Services Exte ́rieure), and MI5 with the Direction de la
Surveillance du Territoire, remained cordial but distant throughout
much of the Cold War because of the belief, based ondefectortesti-
mony, that Communists had penetrated every level of the French
government. The cooperation given to SIS during theFalklandscon-
flict in 1982 served to restore trust, although the continued, overt
presence of Algerian GIA terrorists in London remained a cause for
complaint until the Terrorism Act tightened Britain’s antiterrorist
laws in 2000.FRANCK, LOUIS.A member ofSection D, Louis Franck was sent
on a successful mission to Brussels in May 1940 to prevent the Bank
of Belgium’s gold reserve from falling into German hands. Franck
later joinedSpecial Operations Executive(SOE) and was posted to
British Security Coordination, where he headed the organization’s
operations in West Africa. Subsequently he was to be transferred to
Italyto supervise SOE’s operations run from the forward base in
Bari.