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Recruited as the man SOE so desperately needed, Dricourt penetrated the
heart of PROSPER, SOE's biggest network in France. At the same time he
renewed contact with Karl Boemelburg, head of German counter-espionage
in Paris. Every movement, code and dispatch from the British agents was
made known to Boemelburg; Dricourt gave him everything. His treachery
finally led to the disastrous fall of the PROSPER network, and to the
arrest of nearly one thousand men and women, hundreds of whom died in
concentration camps.
Was it patriotism that drove Dansey, or was the Dricourt plan merely
part of the secret war between MI6 and SOE, a war in which Dansey held
all the weapons? All the King's Men
is the dramatic account on one of the most ruthless secret operations
of the Second World War. I>into the rival British wartime secret
service, SOE. The ensuing trail of destruction and betrayal led to the
loss of over four hundred British and French agents.extraordinaire, < >
Recruited as the man SOE so desperately needed, Dricourt penetrated the
heart of PROSPER, SOE's biggest network in France. At the same time he
renewed contact with Karl Boemelburg, head of German counter-espionage
in Paris. Every movement, code and dispatch from the British agents was
made known to Boemelburg; Dricourt gave him everything. His treachery
finally led to the disastrous fall of the PROSPER network, and to the
arrest of nearly one thousand men and women, hundreds of whom died in
concentration camps.
Was it patriotism that drove Dansey, or was the Dricourt plan merely
part of the secret war between MI6 and SOE, a war in which Dansey held
all the weapons? All the King's Men
is the dramatic account on one of the most ruthless secret operations
of the Second World War. I>into the rival British wartime secret
service, SOE. The ensuing trail of destruction and betrayal led to the
loss of over four hundred British and French agents.extraordinaire, <
