Poem Code:
Following intelligence practice that agent's codes were better kept in their heads than on paper. SOE (Special Operations Excutive) initially used codes based on famous poems and quotations. The purpose of these poem codes were to give the agents something to concentrate on during enemy interrogations.
The following was Violette Szabo's poem code.
The Life that I Have
Is All that I Have
And the Life that I Have
Is Yours
The Love that I Have
Of the Life that I have
Is Your and Yours and Yours
A Sleep I shall Have
A Rest I shall have
Yet Death will be but a Pause
For the Peace of my Years
In the Long Green Grass
Will be Yours and Yours and Yours
From p. 225 of Women Who Lived for Danger: The Agents of the Special Operations Executive by Marcus Binney (William Morrow, 2002)
Saturday, October 3, 2009
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