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...Double Webs, Author Jean Overton Fuller charges that S.O.E. was totally fooled by a French-born double agent code-named "Gilbert," who was better known to the Germans as agent "BOE 48" (the 48th agent of Karl Boemelburg, a Gestapo chief in Paris). It is Author Fuller's contention that Gilbert, as Air Movements Officer of S.O.E., passed pertinent documents to the Gestapo headquarters before sending them by courier to London. In return, Gilbert obtained a German promise never to shoot down or capture any aircraft landing at fields he controlled. Gilbert was later brought to London "under suspicion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Painful Memories | 12/15/1958 | See Source »

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