Notes
1Christopher Andrews and David Dilks (eds.), The Missing Dimension: Government and Intelligence Communities in the Twentieth Century (Urbana: Illinois UP 1984).
2According to one source Colin Gubbins, the incumbent chief of SOE, in the summer of 1940 became charged with setting up a stay-behind preparedness in preparation for a possible German occupation of Britain. See David Lampe, The Last Ditch (London: Cassell 1968), 65.
3Nigel West (ed.), The Guy Liddell Diaries, Vol. II: 1942–1945 (London: Routledge 2005), 256.
4London, National Archives, CAB 80/98, COS (45) 680 (O), Foreign Office to Secretary, Chiefs of Staff Committee 4 Dec. 1945. See also David Stafford, Britain and European Resistance, 1940–45 (London: MacMillan 1980), 203–4.
5F. A. C. Kluiters, De Nederlandse inlichtingen- en veiligheidsdiensten (The Hague: sdu Uitgeverij Koninginnegracht 1993), 311.
6We are grateful to Cees Wiebes for providing us with a copy of this document.