408 • PANDORA
When thePan Crescent, commanded by Dov Bertchick, finally
reached Constantia in October 1947, diplomatic representations were
made with the Romanian authorities to prevent any illegal emigrants
from embarking, so accompanied by thePan Yorkshe sailed to the
Bulgarian port of Burgas, where a large number of Jewish refugees
had assembled. However, when the U.S. State Department learned
that the emigrants were ‘‘hand-picked Communists,’’ an official de ́-
marche was issued, prompting a rift between the Jewish Agency and
Mossad, but both ships sailed at the end of December, carrying more
than 15,000 passengers. The ships were inspected by Turkish authori-
ties in the Bosporus and allowed to continue their voyage, but were
intercepted in January 1948 by the cruiser HMSMauritiusand es-
corted into the Cypriot port of Famagusta, where the refugees were
directed to detention camps.PANDORA. Government Code and Cipher Schoolcode name ap-
plied to wireless traffic during World War II directed to Dr. Edward
Hempel, the German minister at the German Legation in Dublin. Al-
though Dr. Hempel was required to surrender his radio transmitter,
he continued to receive instructions from Berlin until the end of hos-
tilities in 1945, and these messages were read atBletchley Parkand
given limited distribution to authorized recipients in Whitehall.
PANTCHEFF, THEODORE X. F. During the mid-1950s, at the
height of the Cold War, Theodore (‘‘Bunny’’) Pantcheff ran agents in
West Germany from Munich, operating underBritish Control Com-
mission for Germanycover. Born in Essex to a Greek who became
a naturalized British subject and an English mother, Pantcheff was
once described as having ‘‘an intellect of steel, the appearance of a
country tobacconist, the name of a Soviet spy and a heart of gold.’’
He took a first in German at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge,
and was commissioned into theIntelligence Corpsin 1942.
During the war, Pantcheff worked as a prisoner of war interrogator
and was assigned to investigate the attempted breakout by Nazis from
a PoW camp at Devizes. Immediately following the surrender of the
German occupation forces in the Channel Islands, Pantcheff returned
as a war crimes investigator to the island of Alderney, where in 1931
he had visited his uncle, a doctor. Alderney did not fall into British