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Gestapo, Kiffer became an informant and the Abwehr began arresting
Interallié members, including Carré who was working in Paris. Bleicher persuaded Carré to become a German agent by offering her money and luxurious accommodations. She became his mistress. In December 1941, Vomécourt contacted Interallié and Carré to use their radio link to SOE. Carré introduced Vomécourt to Bleicher who went by the alias of Jean Castell and portrayed himself as a Belgian resistance leader. Vomécourt, however, was wary and in January concluded that Carré was working for the Germans. Vomécourt confronted her and she confessed. He persuaded her to become a British agent and she persuaded Bleicher that she should accompany Vomécourt on a visit to London, the Germany theory being that she could gather information there about SOE and pass it along to the Germans after her return. However, in London Carré was interrogated and then imprisoned for the rest of the war.
191:. Over the next few days Bleicher spent hours talking to Marsac. He portrayed himself as a German colonel who was dissatisfied with the Nazis and wanted to defect to England. He needed cooperation from Marsac or he would be forced to turn him over to the Gestapo. Marsac pledged his cooperation provided that Bleicher would help him escape. Together they hatched a plan to flee to England. Bleicher persuaded Marsac to write a letter to his second-in-command,
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interrogated Vomécourt and the two of them had an amiable chat about both being deceived by Carré. Vomécourt and several of his associates spent the rest of World War II in a German prison camp, among the few SOE agents to survive being captured by the
Germans. With the arrest of Vomécourt and the destruction of his Autogiro network, SOE had few resources left in France except for
206:. He asked her to arrange an evacuation flight for him and Marsac and said they would return on April 18 to depart France on the airplane. She wired SOE in London seeking advice and was told to break off all contact with "Colonel Henri" and go into hiding immediately. However, she and her organiser (leader)
281:. He was handed over to the French government on 12 October 1945, and they also interrogated him. While imprisoned in Paris he met Bardet and told him he had planned to assassinate him on one occasion as Bardet knew too much against him. He visited the UK after the war, to testify against Abwehr colleague
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French counterparts respected him for his expertise. "At the end of the espionage intrigue," said author Larry Loftis, "the deft spy-catcher had once again proven his mastery of the game." According to author Sarah Helm, Bleicher was never charged with a crime. His imprisonment was for interrogation.
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Colonel Henri until April 18, they stayed in Saint-Jorioz and were arrested by Bleicher on April 16. Bardet, compromised by Bleicher, became a German agent and helped Bleicher destroy other SOE networks. Marsac and Bardet survived the war as did Sansom and
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Bleicher and the Abwehr had destroyed
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and needed money to continue building his resistance network. Unknown to Vomécourt and SOE, Interallié had been penetrated by Hugo
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277:, who interrogated him for a further period, also on his operations in the Netherlands, before handing him over to the British authorities, who transferred him on 16 June 1945 to the UK for longer term interrogation at
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