Wednesday, November 18, 2009

More glossary terms from Binney:
I-P
Informant- The agent

Jedburgh- British Army officers in uniform, parachuted into France to organize and arm the Resistance.

Maquis- French guerrilla bands operating 1940-45.

Messages Personnels-Phrases broadcast by the BBC to alert reception committees that an agent would be dropped in their area.

Milice- Vichy French paramilitary police force, formed in 1943, which collaborated with rounding up Jews for deportation and hunting down Resistance groups.

Moon Period- One week either side of the full moon when there was sufficient light for night flying.

Musketeers- A Polish secret network, formed in October 1939 by an engineer and inventor called Witkowski, to continue the fight against the Germans and the Soviets.

No. 1 Special Force- The name by which the SOE was known in Italy.

One-Time Pad- Rows of random numbers printed on silk; each line of numbers was used for coding one message only, the row was then cut off and destroyed.

PF- An agents personal SOE file.

Poem Code- Following intelligence practice that agent's codes were better kept in their heads than on paper, SOE initially used codes based on famous poems and quotations, but these proved highly vulnerable to expert German code breakers.

Polish Home Army- Poland's secret army.

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