Authors: Shrabani Basu
35
Mahmood to author, June 2004.
36
Hidayat to author, May 2004.
37
Article by Alexis Danan in
Le Franctireur
, 17 February 1957, read out at a function in Suresnes to unveil a plaque in Noor’s honour.
38
Overton Fuller,
Noor-unnisa Inayat Khan
, p. 84.
39
Vilayat to author, June 2003.
40
Ibid
.
3:
Flight and Fight
1
Ian Ousby,
Occupation
, pp. 43–4.
2
Vilayat to author, June 2003.
3
Jean Overton Fuller to author, Wymington, Northamptonshire, June 2004
4
Vilayat to author, June 2003.
5
Noor’s service record, Personnel Management Agency, Royal Air Force, Innsworth.
6
Irene Warner (née Salter) to author Beryl E. Escott,
Mission Improbable
, p. 61.
7
Ibid
.
8
Jean Overton Fuller to author, June 2004.
9
Jean Overton Fuller,
Noorun-nisa Inayat Khan
, p. 97.
10
Ibid
., p. 114.
11
Ibid
., p. 101.
12
Vilayat to author, June 2003.
13
Patrick French,
Liberty or Death
, p. 162.
14
Bhagat Ram Talwar (codename Silver). WO/208/773 National Archives, Kew, and Mihir Bose,
Raj, Secrets, Revolution
, pp. 230–1.
15
Noor’s Personal File, HS9/836/5, National Archives, Kew.
4:
Setting Europe Ablaze
1
‘History of SOE 1938–1945’, ‘SOE in Europe’, Paper for VCSS lecture May 1946, HS7/1, National Archives, Kew.
2
SOE Charter – WP (40) 271. Full copy of the charter is available as Appendix A; William Mackenzie,
The Secret History
.
3
M.R.D. Foot,
SOE in France
, p. 14.
4
History of SOE 1938–1945, ‘SOE organisation’, VCCS lecture July 1946, HS7/1, National Archives, Kew.
5
M.R.D. Foot,
SOE: The Special Operations Executive
, p. 22.
6
Later, Bickham Sweet-Escott borrowed the phrase as the title of his book on his own work in the SOE.
7
Germany invaded the USSR/Soviet Union (as it was known then) on 22 June 1941.
8
History of SOE 1938–1945, ‘SOE in Europe’, VCSS Lecture May 1946, HS7/1, National Archives, Kew.
9
Maurice Buckmaster,
Specially Employed
, p. 27.
10
Beryl E. Escott,
Mission Improbable
, p. 29.
11
M.R.D. Foot to author, October 2004, London.
12
Jean Overton Fuller,
Noorun-nisa Inayat Khan
, p. 110.
13
Foot,
SOE
, p. 59.
14
Jepson’s quotes in this section from Overton Fuller
Noor-un-nisa Inayat Khan
, pp. 110–11.
15
Noor’s Air Ministry Records, Personnel Management Agency, RAF Innsworth.
16
Noor’s Personal File, HS9/836/5, National Archives, Kew. 266
Spy Princess
17
Patrick Howarth,
Undercover
, p. 20.
18
‘SOE Organisation and Policy 30 Mar 1941–12 August 1941’, WO 193/626, National Archives, Kew.
19
Jean Overton Fuller to author, Wymington, Northamptonshire, June 2004
20
Ibid
.
21
Ibid
.
22
Ibid
.
23
John Marais, Joan’s son, to author, Cambridge, December 2005, and article by Joan Cubbin (Marais, née Canham), ‘The Sixteenth of June’, published in the
Ipswich Evening Star
.
24
Noor’s Personal File, HS9/836/5 and Air Ministry records.
5:
Codes and Cover Stories
1
Letter quoted in Jean Overton Fuller’s
Noor-unnisa Inayat Khan
, p. 121.
2
Noor’s Personal File, HS9/836/5, National Archives, Kew.
3
Jean Overton Fuller to author, June 2004.
4
M.R.D. Foot to author, December 2004.
5
Security checks were often ignored by London, with disastrous results as we shall see in the following chapters.
6
Unfortunately, we do not know which one.
7
SOE agents in areas besides France were also affected. Almost the entire Dutch network was rounded up when a missed security check was not picked up in London.
8
M.R.D. Foot,
SOE in France
, p. 95.
9
Noor’s Personal File, HS9/836/5, National Archives, Kew.
10
Maurice Buckmaster,
They Fought Alone
, p. 45.
11
Overton Fuller,
Noor-unnisa Inayat Khan
, p. 127.
12
Buckmaster,
They Fought Alone
, p. 46.
13
Jean Overton Fuller to author, June 2004.
14
Flight schedule from Hugh Verity,
We Landed by Moonlight
, Appendix B, and Foot,
SOE in France
, p. 261.
15
M.R.D. Foot to author, October 2004.
16
Noor’s Personal File, HS9/836/5, National Archives, Kew.
17
Ibid
.
18
Ibid
.
19
Ibid
.
20
M.R.D. Foot to author, October 2004, London.
21
Patrick Howarth,
Undercover
, p. 79.
22
Susan Ottaway,
Violette Szabo
, pp. 58–60.
23
Overton Fuller,
Noor-unnisa Inayat Khan
, p. 132.
6:
Leaving England
1
Noor’s Personal File, HS9/836/5, National Archives, Kew.
Notes
267
2
Jean Overton Fuller,
Noorun-nisa Inayat Khan
, p. 133.
3
Noor’s Personal File, HS9/836/5, National Archives, Kew.
4
Leo Marks,
Between Silk and Cyanide
, pp. 307–21. Extracts and quotes in this section from two chapters in the book – ‘Appointment with Royalty’ and ‘The Extended Briefing’.
5
Maurice Buckmaster,
Specially Employed
, p. 31.
6
Noor’s Personal File, HS9/836/5, Instructions to Noor on her cover story. National Archives, Kew.
7
Letter to Hidayat from Patricia Stewart Bam.
8
Buckmaster,
Specially Employed
, p. 73.
9
Jean Overton Fuller to author, June 2004.
10
Ibid
.
11
Hugh Verity,
We Landed By Moonlight
, p. 94.
12
Overton Fuller,
Noor-unnisa Inayat Khan
, p. 139.
13
William Stevenson,
A Man Called Intrepid
, p. 224.
7:
Joining the Circuit
1
William Mackenzie,
The Secret History of SOE
, p. 739.
2
Hugh Verity,
We Landed by Moonlight
, p. 94.
3
Ibid
.
4
Ibid
.
5
One or two daylight operations by Lysanders were undertaken in Italy in 1945 and a few in Burma in 1944 and 1945. M.R.D. Foot to author, February 2005.
6
M.R.D. Foot,
SOE in France
, Appendix D: Air Landing Notes, p. 434.
7
Verity,
We Landed by Moonlight
, Appendix B: Summary of RAF pick-up operations in France, p. 191, and Noor’s Personal File, HS9/836/5, National Archives, Kew.
8
Noor’s Personal File, HS 9/836/5. Instructions given to her on 9/6/45, National Archives, Kew.
9
Francis Suttill’s Personal File, HS9/1430/6, National Archives, Kew.
10
France Antelme’s Personal File, HS9/42 Vol. 1, National Archives, Kew.
11
Francis Suttill’s Personal File, HS9/1430/6, National Archives, Kew. Citation for his DSO.
12
Circuit summary by Eddie Boxshall (First SOE adviser), December 1960.
13
Foot,
SOE in France
, p. 231.
14
Noor’s Personal File, HS9/836/5, National Archives, Kew.
15
Leo Marks once told M.R.D. Foot that Playfair was never used for operational messages, though agents were taught it as an exercise. M.R.D. Foot to author, February 2005.
16
Noor’s Personal File, HS9/836/5, ‘Instructions to Nurse’ before Noor left for 268
Spy Princess
France. National Archives, Kew.
17
Quotes in this section from Jean Overton Fuller,
Noorun-nisa Inayat Khan
, pp. 142–4.
18
France Antelme’s Personal File, HS9/142 Vol. 1, National Archives, Kew.
19
Ibid
.
20
Foot,
SOE in France
, p. 96.
21
David Stafford,
Secret Agent
, p. 154.
22
Noor’s Personal Files, HS9/836/5, National Archives, Kew.
23
Overton Fuller,
Noor-unnisa Inayat Khan
, p. 197. As told to her by Raymonde Prénat.
24
Leo Marks,
Between Silk and Cyanide
, p. 20.
25
Foot,
SOE in France
, p. 91.
26
Overton Fuller,
Noor-unnisa Inayat Khan
, p. 146.
27
Ian Ousby,
Occupation
, p. 188.
8: The Fall of Prosper
1
Antelme’s Personal File, HS9/42 Vol. 1, National Archives, Kew.
2
Francis Suttill (son of Suttill) to author, November 2004. From his conversations with Josette Bossard.
3
Culioli trial of 9 June 1949, quoted in French newspaper in HS6/426, National Archives, Kew.
4
Francis Suttill to author, Ross on Wye, March 2005, based on his conversations with Josette Bossard, Pierre Raynaud and Mrs Laurent.
5
Suttill to author, March 2005.
6
Suttill’s Personal File, HS9/1430/6, National Archives, Kew.
7
Antelme’s Personal File, HS9/42, National Archives, Kew.
8
Suttill’s letter in Lejeune Personal File, HS9/911, National Archives, Kew.
9
Ibid
.
10
Antelme’s Personal File, HS9/42 Vol. 1, National Archives, Kew. Report on events between 22 June and 1 July and notes on Prosper’s arrest.
11
Ibid
.
12
Ibid
.
13
Alain Antelme, nephew of France Antelme, to author (February 2005 by e-mail) – as told to him by Madame Aigrain.
14
Gieules’ Personal File, HS9/581/4, National Archives, Kew.
15
Antelme Personal File, HS9/42 Vol. 1, National Archives, Kew.