394 • OATLEY, MICHAEL
bania since 1929. In 1940 he joinedSpecial Operations Executive
and served asDH/61 in the Romania, Greece, Crete, and Albania
Section before switching to theSecret Intelligence Servicein 1945
and returning to Tirana as a member of the UN Relief and Rehabilita-
tion Agency mission. In 1949 he ran the Athens end ofvaluable,
and he later became chairman of the Anglo-Albanian Society in Lon-
don. Oakley-Hill died in November 1985.OATLEY, MICHAEL.Born in 1936 and educated at Trinity College,
Cambridge, Michael Oatley joined theSecret Intelligence Service
in 1959 after two years in the Royal Navy. He served in Kampala,
Lome ́, and Accra. In 1973 Oatley was posted to Belfast,Northern
Ireland, where he established contact with the ProvisionalIrish Re-
publican Army(PIRA) and maintained the link for the next 20
years, acting as an unofficial conduit. When dealing with the PIRA,
he was known to them by the code namemountain climber.In
1975 Oatley was appointed head of station inHong Kongand his
last overseas posting before his retirement to join a private security
firm was Harare.
OATMEAL. MI5code name for one of the most unusualdouble
agentoperations of World War II.oatmealinvolved two Norwe-
gians,John Moeand Tor Glad, who had been flown to Scotland in a
Luftwaffe seaplane and paddled ashore near Crovie on the Moray
Firth in April 1941. They quickly surrendered to the police and then,
codenamedmuttandjeff, cooperated with MI5 to establish contact
with their German controllers. Thedeceptionworked until February
1943, when a consignment of money and explosives was to be para-
chuted to the spies.muttprepared a suitable dropping zone near Ab-
erdeen and MI5 instructed theRoyal Air Forcenot to intercept any
enemy intruders on the appointed night. The Luftwaffe plane flew to
the appointed spot and dropped a new wireless, £400, and a quantity
of sabotage mate ́riel. Unfortunately, on the way back across the
North Sea, the pilot took the opportunity to bomb the undefended
town of Fraserburgh, killing a single 11-year-old boy.muttfelt per-
sonally responsible for his death, wrote an anonymous letter of con-
dolence to the mayor, and 40 years later made a journey from Norway
to visit his grave.