MOLE• 371for transmission andmuttcontinued to help his MI5 case officers
perpetuate the deception.
muttandjeffwere used as conduits for some of the most impor-
tant strategic deceptions of the war, in one instance persuading the
enemy that Allied troops were concentrating on Scotland’s east coast
in preparation of amphibious landings in Norway, a ploy designed to
divert attention away from the English Channel.muttalso partici-
pated inoatmeal, a plan to persuade the Abwehr to drop him sup-
plies in February 1943. A Luftwaffe plane dropped him sabotage
mate ́riel, a new wireless transmitter, and £400, but then bombed Fra-
serburgh on the flight back across the North Sea, killing a boy.
At the end of the war, Moe, who had joined up with the Norwegian
army in exile, returned home a hero, although he was reticent about
his activities as a double agent. Glad was not so lucky and was es-
corted to Oslo under police guard. After his arrival, he was arrested
and charged with collaborating with the enemy, only being released
after late intervention by MI5. Glad never forgave his treatment in
England, but in 1980 he was reunited with Moe and agreed to discuss
his experience publicly for the first time. An employee of Norwegian
Television, Glad’s postwar career was handicapped by the suspicion
of his colleagues that he had worked for the Germans during the war.
His decision to reveal the truth gave him some comfort before his
death. Encouraged by the favorable reaction of his friends in Sweden,
where he was then living, to the news that he had been a double
agent, Moe started work on his autobiography,John Moe: Double
Agent, cowritten with a journalist, Jan Moen.MOLE.Modern usage of a term now applied an espionage agent re-
cruited in his or her youth with the intention of being infiltrated into
an organization targeted for penetration. This technique was most fa-
mously adopted by Soviet illegals during the 1930s, resulting in the
establishment of networks of students cultivated while still at Oxford
and Cambridge universities, such as theCambridge Fiveand the
Oxford Ring. The concept of the ‘‘mole,’’ as a spy burrowing deep
into a host society to inflict maximum damage, was referred to by Sir
Francis Bacon in 1682 in hisHistorie of the Raigne of King Henry
the Seventh. The leading British exponent of developing moles was
MI5’sMax Knight, who inserted his agentsOlga GrayandTom