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lishedAlderney: Fortress Island, a short account of the German oc-
cupation of Alderney, the Channel Island where he eventually settled
with his wife and two sons. He also contributed an article on his war-
time experience to the London-based magazineWorld War II Investi-
gator. Pantcheff was appointed the jurat to the Court of Alderney and
died of leukemia on the island in November 1989.PAPERCLIP.Code name for a British Intelligence operation con-
ducted immediately after World War II to identify and detain German
scientists who had knowledge of Nazi technical developments in
fields of aerospace, jet propulsion, and advanced weaponry. The
American equivalent operation was codenamedmatchbox.
PARLANTI, CONRAD.Shortly after the outbreak of World War II in
September 1939, Conrad Parlanti reported to theSecret Intelligence
Service(SIS) in The Hague that he had been in business withHenri
Piecksince 1936. Having been introduced to Pieck in 1934 by a Brit-
ish diplomat named Raymond Oake, Parlanti was persuaded to leave
his shop-fitting job and rent an architect’s office in Buckingham
Gate, London. However, when he learned from Pieck’s wife that her
husband had been receiving secret documents from a Foreign Office
official and speculating on the information, he closed the business
down and returned to Holland. Pieck identified CaptainJohn King
as a man he had seen visit the office in Buckingham Gate where
Pieck had kept a locked photographic studio. SIS had passed this in-
formation on toMI5,which coincidentally had placed King under
surveillance following a tip from theGRUdefectorWalter Krivit-
skyin the United States. Parlanti subsequently agreed to participate
in an MI5 operation to lure Pieck to London to be arrested, but he
declined to cooperate, apparently fearing that he had been compro-
mised by Krivitsky.
PARLIAMENTARY INTELLIGENCE AND SECURITY COM-
MITTEE.Created by theIntelligence Services Actin 1992, the
Parliamentary Intelligence and Security Committee consists of six
members of Parliament, drawn from both houses and appointed by
the prime minister. The committee prepares an annual report, which
is then released for debate after any sensitive passages are excised.