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Original Articles

The Clandestine Operations of Hans Helmut Klose and the British Baltic Fishery Protection Service (BBFPS) 1949–1956

Pages 169-178 | Published online: 05 Oct 2012

References

  • Grose , Peter . 2000 . Operation Rollback: America's Secret War Behind the Iron Curtain New York : Houghton Mifflin .
  • Bower , Tom . 1989 . The Red Web: MI 6 and the KGB Master Coup London : Aurum Press . The author writes a colorful suspense story; however, some of his facts are sketchy, incomplete or even faulty as far as the details of Klose's operations are concerned
  • 1997 . Genocidas ir Rezistencija Ibid., 101; Zanis Vasilevski, “Armed National Resistance Units-the Medium of the Games of the SSSR/Latvian SSR and Great Britain Special Operative Services in 1945–1956,” 2 (Indrek Jürjö, “Opera- tions of Western Intelligence Services and Estonian Refugees in Post-War Estonia and the Tactics of KGB Counterintelligence,” in The Anti-Soviet Resistance in the Baltic States (Vilnius: Genocide and Resistance Research Center of Lithuania, Du Ka Verlag, 1999). Accounts from eyewitnesses and the above mentioned authors differ in many details. For this article, the most likely development of events was chosen
  • Bower . The Red Web 114 128; Vasilevski, “Armed National Resistance Units;” Jürjö, “Operations of Western Intelligence Services.”
  • ADM 1/23927, Public Records Office (PRO)
  • Bower . The Red Web , 140 145 151–53; Vasilevski, “Armed National Resistance Units;” Jürjö, “Operations of Western Intelligence Services.” Dates, numbers, and names of agents differ in all three accounts
  • Eyewitness reports confirm the events of the balloon landings and their locations; dates differ considerably
  • Bower . The Red Web 170 – 73 . Bower's account contains discrepancies concerning dates and agents. Vasilevski, “Armed National Resistance Units,” ibid; Jürjö, “Operations of Western Intelligence Services,” ibid
  • ADM 1/23752, PRO
  • Bower . The Red Web , 181 182 184; Vasilevski, “Armed National Resistance Units;” Jürjö, “Operations of Western Intelligence Services.”
  • Bower . The Red Web 144
  • 1943 . Vårstormar: 1944, krigsslutet skönjes [Spring storms] Indications of Swedish intelligence involvement in the MI 6 operations in the Baltic can be found in Lars Ericson, “Exodus och underrättelseinhämtning, Det svenska färsvaret och Baltikum, Hösten—Våren 1945 [Exodus and Intelligence, Swedish Defense and the Baltic, fall 1943-spring 1945],” in, eds. Bo Huldt and Klaus-Richard Böhme (Stockholm: Probus, 1995); Peter Kadhammer, “Spionerna som sändes ut i kylan [Spies who were sent into the cold],” Magazin Z (January 1989)
  • 1995 . Obersten og kommanderen: Efterretningstjeneste, sikkerhedspolitik og socialdemokrati 1945–1955 [Colonels and Commanders] Copenhagen : Gyldendal . Wilhelm Christmas-Møller
  • 20 November 1966 . Junge Welt For example, see the East German Periodical (29/30 October and 19/
  • Bower . The Red Web 191
  • 2000 . MI 6: Inside the Covert World of Her Majesty's Secret Intelligence Service New York : The Free Press . A critical assessment of the clandestine operations of MI 6 and CIA in the Baltic, and the counter-intelligence of the KGB can be found in Stephen Dorril, 268–99; Christopher Andrews and Oleg Gordiewsky, KGB: Die Geschichte seiner Auslandsoperationen von Lenin bis Gorbatschow [KGB: The History of its Foreign Operations from Lenin to Gorbachev] (Gütersloh: Bertelsmann, 1990), 496–505

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