Dramatis Personae

SPINDLE Circuit (Special Operations Executive, or SOE)

Marie-Lou Blanc (field name, Suzanne)—local operative

Lieutenant Francis Cammaerts (Roger)—head of JOCKEY circuit, replacing SPINDLE circuit

Captain Peter Churchill (Michel, Raoul)—head of SPINDLE circuit

Jean and Simone Cottet (Jean and Simone)—operators of Hôtel de la Poste

Jacques Latour (Jacques)—local operative, courier

Baron Henri de Malval (Antoine)—local operative, owner of HQ Villa Isabelle

Adolphe (“Alec”) Rabinovitch (Arnaud)—radio operator

Odette Sansom (Lise)—courier

CARTE Circuit (French Resistance)

Roger Bardet (Chaillan)—Major Frager’s lieutenant and courier, also of DONKEYMAN circuit

Louis le Belge (Le Belge)—courier

Major Henri Frager (Paul, Louba)—André Girard’s lieutenant; later, chief of DONKEYMAN circuit after termination of CARTE circuit

André Girard (Carte)—head of CARTE circuit

Lejeune (Lejeune)—local operative

André Marsac (End, Marsac)—Marseille chief, Frager’s deputy

Jacques Riquet (Riquet)—courier

Suzanne (Lucienne)—Marsac’s secretary, courier

British Special Operations Executive (SOE), French Section

Vera Atkins—assistant to Maurice Buckmaster; intelligence officer

Major/Colonel Maurice Buckmaster—F Section head

Captain Selwyn Jepson—F Section recruiting officer

Pierre de Vomécourt (Lucas)—agent

British Intelligence

Secret Intelligence Service (MI6)

German Intelligence

Abwehr (Military Intelligence Service)

Sergeant Hugo Bleicher (Monsieur Jean, Colonel Henri)—field security policeman working under supervision of the Abwehr

Major Hans Josef Kieffer—Paris chief of Sicherheitsdienst

Colonel Oscar Reile—Abwehr III F Paris chief (Hugo Bleicher’s supervisor)

Sicherheitsdienst (SD)—Nazi Party intelligence

Others

Gestapo (Nazi Secret Police)

Jean Lucien Keiffer (Kiki, Desiré)—agent for INTERALLIÉ and DONKEYMAN circuits

Father Paul Steinert—chaplain, Fresnes Prison

Fritz Sühren—commandant of Ravensbrück concentration camp

Trude—female guard at Fresnes Prison