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Index
A Force, 1, 2, 3
Abate, Giovanni, 1
Abwehr, 1, 2
Abyssinia: Italian invasion (1935–6), 1, 2; Italian civilian population, 1;
anti-Fascist work, 1
Acquarone, Duke Pietro, 1
Adler, Lieutenant Gabor: background, 1;
character, 1;
recruited by SOE, 1, 2;
SOE training, 1, 2;
Sardinian mission, 1, 2, 3, 4;
capture, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;
wireless set used by Italians, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9;
imprisonment in Rome, 1, 2, 3, 4;
Serra’s account, 1, 2;
John Armstrong identity, 1, 2, 3;
moved from Regina Coeli prison, 1;
missing, 1, 2;
probable fate, 1;
memorial, 1
Admiralty, 1, 2
‘Adriano’, 1, 2, 3
Air Ministry, 1, 2, 3
El Alamein, 1, 2, 3
Albania, Italian occupation, 1, 2, 3, 4
Alexander, General Sir Harold, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Algiers: Allied landings, 1; Allied Forces Headquarters, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;
SOE base, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7;
interrogation of Italian prisoners, 1;
A Force, 1;
Adler wireless handling, 1, 2;
Monkey wireless link, 1, 2, 3, 4
Almerigotti, Eligio, see Klein
Almerigotti, Thea, 1
Ambrosio, General Vittorio, 1, 2
Amedeo, Filippo, 1
Amendola, Giovanni, 1
Andreoli, Elio (‘Elda’): recruited by British, 1, 2, 3, 4; relationship with SIM, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Anzio, Allied landings, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Arandora Star (passenger ship), 1
Atlantic Charter, 1, 2
Attlee, Clement, 1, 2
Austin, Flight Lieutenant John, 1
Avalanche, Operation, 1
Avorio (Italian submarine), 1
Badoglio, Mario, 1
Badoglio, Marshal Pietro: career, 1; planned coup, 1;
contact with British, 1, 2, 3, 4;
Olivetti’s proposal, 1;
government formed, 1;
military policy, 1, 2;
peace negotiations, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;
authorisation of armistice signing, 1;
armistice announcement, 1, 2;
government, 1, 2;
move to Brindisi, 1, 2
Baionetta (Italian corvette), 1
Baldanza (Italian wireless operator), 1
‘Barclay’, Plan, 1, 2, 3
Baroncini, Domenici, 1, 2
Barstow, 2nd Lieutenant Oliver, 1, 2
Bastianini, Giuseppe, 1, 2
BBC: report on Picchi’s death, 1, 2; Italian-speakers, 1;
reporting from Berne, 1;
broadcasts to Germany, 1
Bedell Smith, Major General Walter, 1, 2, 3, 4
Beevor, Jack, 1, 2
Beggs, Corporal Bill, 1, 2
Bergonzoli, Annibale, 1
Berington, Willie (‘Mr Beresford’), 1
McCaffery’s mission, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5,
see also McCaffery;
SOE office, 1, 2, 3;
SOE supplies, 1;
Badoglio contact, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;
Caracciolo contact, 1;
Olivetti contact, 1;
OSS in, 1;
SIM revelations, 1, 2, 3
Bersaglieri, 1, 2, 3
Bertacchi, Colonel Mario: SIM position, 1; opinion of De Leo, 1;
on SIM deception of British, 1;
on Adler and Serra, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
interrogation, 1
Bertholet, René, 1
Binetti (wireless operator), 1, 2
Bingham, Colonel Eric ‘Bingy’, 1
Bloom, Lieutenant Marcus, 1
‘Boardman’, Plan, 1, 2
Bocchini, Arturo (‘Mr H. G. Roberts’), 1, 2, 3, 4
Bolzano concentration camp, 1
Bonetti, Almerico, 1
Bonfonello, Marchese di, 1
Bonomi, Ivanoe, 1
Borg, Corporal Charles, 1
Borghi, Fulvio, 1
Boutigny, Sergeant Henry, 1, 2
Bracken, Brendan, 1
‘Brandon’ unit, 1
Braun, Eva, 1
Bravini, Captain, 1
Bricoli, Captain, 1
Brigata Sassari, 1
Brigate Nere, 1
Brindisi, Swabian Castle, 1
British Council, 1, 2, 3, 4
British Security Coordination (BSC), 1, 2
Bucco, Giuseppe, 1
Bulletins from Brita
in, 1
Buozzi, Bruno, 1
Caccia, Nancy, 1
Cairo: SOE office, 1, 2, 3, 4; recruiting Italians, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;
supplies for Fleming, 1;
routes, 1;
Yak Mission survivors, 1;
SOE training school, 1;
SOE planning role, 1, 2;
Giustizia e Libertà contacts, 1;
Laurenti contact, 1, 2;
Capra plan, 1;
Tridondani plan, 1;
teams proposal, 1;
MI6 plans, 1, 2, 3, 4;
Mussolini assassination plan, 1, 2, 3;
Di Giunta’s mission, 1, 2;
SOE Sicilian plans, 1, 2;
SOE report on Mafia, 1;
SOE Italian desk, 1;
Roseberry’s warnings, 1, 2, 3;
Nekić plans, 1;
Mallaby mission, 1, 2
Cali, Frank, 1
Calosso, Umberto, 1
Camboni, Antonio, 1
Canada: internment camps, 1; Italian recruits, 1, 2, 3
Candela, Valerio, 1
Canepa, Professor, 1, 2
Capa, Robert, 1
Capizzi (in Tunis), 1
Capra, Giovanni, 1
Carabinieri: personnel with SIM, 1, 2, 3; Rossi’s death, 1;
deserter (Serra), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
firing squad, 1;
Moro’s career, 1;
Mussolini’s imprisonment, 1
Caracciolo, Filippo, Duke of Melito, 1, 2
Carate Urio, 1
Casablanca Conference (1943), 1, 2, 3, 4
Casablanca (film), 1
Casement, Roger, 1
Cassibile, signing of Armistice, 1
Castagnaro (Palermo hotelier), 1
Castellano, General Giuseppe (‘Signor Raimondi’), 1, 2
Catania: ‘Why Not’ operation, 1; SOE plan, 1;
list of Mafia names, 1;
SOE mission, 1;
fall to Eighth Army, 1, 2
Cavadini, Enrico, 1, 2
Cavaduzzo, Ciccio, 1
Cavendish-Bentinck, Victor, 1
Caviglia, Marshal Enrico, 1, 2
Cettuzzi, Antonio, 1, 2
Chamberlain, Neville, 1
Chicheley Hall, 1
Chidson, Lt-Colonel Montagu, 1
Christ Stopped at Eboli (Levi), 1
Churchill, Winston: relationship with Mussolini, 1, 2, 3; in Paris, 1;
on Italian declaration of war, 1;
orders for SOE, 1;
concern for SOE’s Italian activities, 1, 2;
on aqueduct mission, 1, 2;
on recruitment of Italians, 1;
creation of BSC, 1;
Atlantic Charter, 1;
no confidence vote, 1;
reports of Italian sabotage ‘successes’, 1, 2;
Casablanca Conference, 1, 2, 3;
on SOE activities, 1;
view of Badoglio proposal, 1;
plan to bomb Mussolini, 1, 2;
response to Italian surrender negotiations, 1
Cianca, Alberto: Section D contact, 1, 2; friendship with Lussu, 1, 2, 3, 4;
SOE visa help, 1;
arrival in Britain, 1;
Sicilian role, 1, 2;
political career, 1
Ciano, Count Galeazzo, 1
Clarke, Brigadier Dudley, 1
Clarke, Lance-Bombardier Philip Edgar, 1
Collier, Laurence, 1, 2
Collier, Sir Robert, 1
Colossus, Operation, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Colville, Jock, 1
Combined Operations, 1
Comitato d’Azione, 1
Comitato di Liberazione Nazionale, 1
communists: treatment by Fascist government, 1, 2, 3; SOE recruits, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
Silone’s career, 1;
Sicilian contacts, 1;
Olivetti’s contacts, 1;
partisans, 1;
not contacted by SOE, 1
Como, Lake, 1, 2
‘Constable, Mr’, 1, 2, 3
‘Cooler, the’, 1, 2
Cooper, Captain Dick, 1, 2
Cooper, Captain Peter, 1, 2, 3, 4
Corio, Silvio, 1
Corona, Achille, 1
Corriere della Sera, 1, 2
Corsica: Lussu’s plans, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6; SOE plans, 1;
Serra’s activities, 1, 2
Corso (in Tunis), 1
Corvo, Max, 1
Crawshaw, Harold, 1, 2
Crichton, Lt-Colonel Michael, 1
Cripps, Stafford, 1
Crispi, Francesco, 1
Croft, Captain Andrew, 1, 2
‘Crossword’, Operation, 1
Daily Express, 1
Daily Telegraph, 1, 2
Dallimore-Mallaby, Richard, see Mallaby (Dick)
Dalton, Hugh: character, 1; career, 1;
creation of SOE, 1;
SOE role, 1, 2, 3;
concern for Italian activities, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
response to Yak Mission, 1;
response to Lussu’s plan, 1, 2, 3;
move to Board of Trade, 1
Dalton, Ruth, 1
Daly, Captain Gerrard, 1, 2
Dansey, Claude: career, 1; ‘Z’ organisation, 1, 2;
relationship with Salvadori, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
view of Piercy, 1
Dareme, 2nd Lieutenant Pierre (nom de guerre of Edouard Tridondani), 1
De Benedetti, Guido, 1, 2
De Bosis, Lauro, 1
De Gasperi, Alcide, 1, 2
de Gaulle, Charles, 1, 2, 3
de Guelis, Major Jacques, 1
de Haan, Captain Edward ‘Teddy’, 1, 2, 3
De Leo, Major Candeloro, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Deane-Drummond, Lieutenant Tony, 1, 2
Del Col, Luciano, 1
Della Corte, Mario, 1
delle Torrazze, Marchese Giovanni Romeo, 1
Delogu, Ennio, 1
Dempsey, General Miles, 1, 2
Deuxième Bureau, 1, 2, 3
DF Section, 1
Di Giunta, Giovanni: background, 1, 2; character, 1, 2, 3;
recruited by SOE, 1;
plan to kill Mussolini, 1, 2;
facial surgery, 1;
plan to kill Farinacci, 1, 2;
Mafia stories, 1
Di Giunta family, 1
Di Lucia, Giovanni (‘John’), 1
diamonds, 1, 2, 3, 4
Dobrski, Captain Julian, 1, 2
Dodds-Parker, Lt-Colonel Douglas, 1, 2
Donati, Leo, 1
D’Oriano, Laura, 1
Duilio (Italian repatriation ship), 1
Dulles, Allen, 1, 2
Duncan, George, 1, 2
Economic Warfare, Ministry of, 1, 2, 3, 4
Eden, Anthony: relationship with Dalton, 1; Italian surrender negotiations, 1, 2, 3;
response to Mussolini assassination plan, 1, 2;
Italian surrender, 1
Eighth Army, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Eisenhower, General Dwight D.: Algiers HQ, 1, 2, 3; planning staff, 1;
Sicilian invasion, 1, 2;
on Italian surrender policy, 1, 2;
Italian peace negotiations, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
armistice announcement, 1, 2, 3, 4;
on Salvadori, 1;
memoirs, 1, 2
Electra House, 1, 2
Enter Mussolini (Lussu), 1
Eritrea, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
escape lines, 1, 2
Evening Standard, 1
Faccio, Major Cesare, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Facduelle, General Edoardo, 1
Faga, Lt-Colonel, 1, 2
Farinacci, Roberto, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Fascist Party, 1, 2
Fawcett, Percy, 1
FBI, 1, 2, 3
Federzoni, Luigi, 1
Fiamme Verdi, 1
Fink, C. G., 1
Fink, Melvin, 1, 2
Fiore, Giuseppe, 1
First Aid Nursing Yeomanry (FANY), 1, 2, 3
Fleming, Captain Peter, 1, 2, 3, 4
Fleming’s Hotel, 1, 2
Floris, Pietro, 1
Floro, Alessandro, 1, 2
Fontamara (Silone), 1
Foot, M. R. D., 1
Foreign Office: response to Salvadori’s proposals, 1; SOE relations, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
plan to raise ‘free’ Italian force, 1;
response to Lussu’s proposal, 1, 2, 3;
Mussolini assassination plan, 1, 2;
on Mafia, 1;
Swiss relations, 1;
view of Sforza, 1;
view of Bergonzoli, 1;
response to Badoglio approach, 1;
response to Olivetti approach, 1;
Mallaby mission, 1;
response to Italian emissaries, 1
Forte Bravetta, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Foxley, Operation, 1, 2
Franco, General Francisco, 1
Free French Forces, 1, 2
Free World, 1
Frodsham, Geoffrey, 1
Fusco, Frank, 1
‘G Topo’, 1, 2, 3
Galea (pseudonym), see Sarfatti
Gallegos, Adrian, 1
Galletti, Major Arthur, 1
Gallo, Antonio: background, 1; recruited by SOE, 1;
wireless training, 1, 2;
Sicilian mission, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
capture, 1, 2, 3;
interrogation, 1, 2, 3, 4;
death, 1, 2, 3;
SOE’s response to death, 1, 2
Garibaldi, Giuseppe, 1, 2, 3
Garosci, Aldo, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Garvin, Sergeant Paul, 1
Gatehouse, Lieutenant Richard, 1, 2
Genoa: port fire, 1; public morale, 1
Gentili, Dino, 1
Giacobbe, Dino, 1, 2, 3
Giacomazzi, Giuseppe, 1
Giansiracusa (journalist), 1
Gibraltar, 1, 2, 3
Gibson, Guy, 1
Gibson, Violet, 1
Girl Beatrice (trawler), 1, 2
Giustizia e Libertà: foundation, 1; membership, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8;
activities, 1, 2;