Historical Dictionary of British Intelligence

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ment, and a 1stSpecial Air Serviceregiment mission codenamed

bulbasket; the latter was under the command of Major J. E. Tonkin

and wreaked havoc among the enemy defenders until it was itself

decimated by a battalion of SS infantry on 4 July.hughwas not a

typicaljedburghbecause it consisted of two Frenchmen and one

British officer, but this did reflect the relative shortage of OSS per-

sonnel available in mid-June. In fact, although more teams were to

be dropped into enemy territory in the days followingD-Day, the

first American did not go into the field until Sergeant Robert Keyhoe

offrederickand Captain Paul Cyr ofgeorgelanded in Brittany on

9–10 June. By the beginning of July 1944, a total of 13 Jeds had been

dispatched, of which seven originated from Algiers. Altogether 93

jedburghs were deployed, with losses amounting to 21, the equiva-

lent of seven full teams.

The Jeds dropped into France werealan,alastair,alec,alex-

ander,alfred,ammonia,andrew,andy,anthony,archibald,

arnold,arthur,aubrey,augustus,basil,benjamin,bernard,

brian, bruce,bugatti,bunny, cecil, cedric,chloroform,

chrysler,cinnamon,citroen,collodion,daniel i,daniel ii,

desmond,dodge,douglas i,douglas ii,eclaireur,ephedrine,

felix,francis i,frank,frederick,gavin,george,george ii,

gerald,gilbert,giles,godfrey,graham,gregory,guy,ham-

ish,harold,harry,henry,hilary,horace,hugh/politician ii,

ian,ivor,jacob,james,jeremy,jim,jock,john,jude i,jude ii,

julian,julian ii,lee,mark,martin,masque,maurice,miles,

minaret,monocle,nicholas,norman,novocaine,paul,philip,

quentin,quinine,raymond,roderick,ronald,sceptre,scion,

simon,stanley,timothy,tony,veganine, andwillys.

JEFFES, MAURICE.The son of a former British consul in Belgium,
Maurice Jeffes was a veteranSecret Intelligence Service(SIS) offi-
cer who headed the stations in New York and Paris. He had been edu-
cated entirely on the Continent, in Brussels and at Heidelberg
University, and in 1916 joined up with the Royal West Surreys. Later
he transferred to theIntelligence Corpsand in 1919 was appointed
as station commander in Paris before going to New York in Septem-
ber 1921. Upon his return to London he played a senior role in SIS’s
management while ostensibly director of thePassport Control Of-