Strategic Deception

I. British residents, Richard Stevens and Sigismund Payne Best

A. Venlo Incident

B. German strategic error

C. German tactical victory

II. “Double Cross System”

III. Arthur Owens/SNOW/JOHNNY

A. Major Ritter

B. Gwilym Williams

IV. Abwehr gets sloppy in the post-France rush

V. Benefits of the system

VI. Challenges

VII. Organizational Solutions

A. Wireless Board

B. Twenty Committee

1) J.C. Masterman

C. MI5 B1A

GARBO

I. Juan Pujo Garcia

A. Creates his own cover

B. Starts working for the British

II. Abwehr request for pre-invasion information

III. GARBO’S “responses”

A. Pas de Calais, or Straits of Dover?

B. First United States Army Group

C. TATE and TREASURE corroborate

IV. D-Day

A. GARBO reports invasion too late

B. Abwehr congratulates GARBO

C. Hitler reinforces Calais

Covert Action

I. Special Operations Executive (SOE)

II. Setting Europe Ablaze?

A. SAVANNAH fails in France

B. Everything fails in Holland

C. Sabotage succeeds in Norway

III. D-Day

A. OSS involvement

B. JEDBURGH

1) Resistance and guerillas

2) Railway sabotage

Assessments

I. Did Intelligence Win the War?

A. Successes

B. Failures

1) Holocaust