SOE training, 1;
Colossus mission, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;
capture and interrogation, 1, 2;
death sentence, 1;
death, 1, 2, 3, 4;
reports of death, 1;
handling of story, 1, 2, 3;
fate of family in Italy, 1;
traitor or hero?, 1
Piccolo, 1
Piercy, Captain Charles ‘Chappy’, 1
Pierleoni, Renato, 1
Pioneer Corps, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Pius XII, Pope, 1
poison pills, 1, 2
Political Warfare Executive, 1, 2, 3
Ponza, penal island, 1, 2, 3, 4
Portal, Sir Charles, 1
Pound, Sir Dudley, 1
prisoners of war: British, 1;
Italian, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Pritchard, Major Trevor (‘Tag’), 1, 2, 3
propaganda: Salvadori’s plans, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6; Salvadori’s activities, 1, 2, 3;
Fascist, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;
Section D’s activities, 1, 2;
Electra House, 1;
anti-Nazi, 1;
Lawrenson’s work, 1;
SO1’s work, 1;
impact of Tragino aqueduct raid, 1;
Ottolenghi’s work, 1;
Thornhill’s work, 1;
Calosso’s work, 1;
Vittorelli’s work, 1;
SOE teams in Sicily, 1;
effects of anti-Fascist, 1, 2;
Sarfatti’s work, 1;
Neda Solic’s work, 1;
Picchi’s death, 1
Purisiol, Rinaldo, 1, 2, 3
‘Quadrant’ conference, 1
Queen Mary, 1
Questura, 1
‘Quins, the’, 1, 2, 3
Rahn, Rudolf, 1
The Railway Gazette, 1
Randall, Captain Gilbert, 1, 2, 3
Rapp, T. C., 1
Realdini, Giovanni, 1
Recchioni, Emidio, 1
Il Regime Fascista, 1
Regina Coeli prison: Salvadori in, 1; Picchi in, 1;
Serra in, 1, 2, 3;
Adler in, 1, 2, 3
The Remaking of Italy, 1
Resistance, Italian anti-Fascist, 1, 2, 3, 4, see also Giustizia e Libertà, partisans
Ribbentrop, Joachim von, 1
Rio Grande, 1
Robertson, Jack, 1
Rocca, Raymond, 1
Rome: Special Tribunal, 1; Lussu’s position, 1;
US Embassy, 1, 2;
public morale, 1
Rommel, Erwin, 1, 2, 3
Rooks, General, 1
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Rosa, Leonida, 1, 2
Roseberry, Major Cecil: background, 1; appearance, 1;
character, 1, 2, 3;
head of SOE Italian desk, 1, 2, 3;
view of Lussu, 1, 2;
view of Giustizia e Libertà, 1;
Tridondani’s career, 1;
view of Cairo’s plans, 1, 2, 3;
view of ‘Washleather’ operation, 1;
view of MI6, 1, 2;
view of Mussolini assassination plan, 1;
view of Farinacci assassination plan, 1;
relationship with McCaffery, 1;
Serra’s training, 1;
Adler’s training, 1;
Crawshaw’s position, 1;
sacrificial mission, 1, 2, 3;
Lussu diversion plan, 1;
on SIM’s use of Adler’s wireless set, 1;
SOE’s role in Sicilian invasion, 1;
view of Salvadori, 1;
view of Badoglio, 1;
view of Bergonzoli, 1;
on British rejection of Badoglio approach, 1, 2;
view of Olivetti, 1;
on Luzzi, 1;
on Mallaby, 1;
on Mallaby’s mission, 1;
role in peace negotiations, 1, 2;
on Mallaby’s exploits, 1, 2;
on SOE’s contribution to Italian war, 1, 2, 3, 4;
discovery of SIM deception, 1;
OVRA deception, 1;
view of Laurenti, 1
Rosselli, Carlo, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Rosselli, Nello, 1
Rossi, Alberto, 1, 2
Rossi, Giacomo, see Sarfatti
Rossi (MI6 agent), 1
Royal Air Force (RAF): dropping leaflets, 1; Malta withdrawal, 1;
Swiss bombing error, 1;
dropping supplies, 1, 2, 3;
SOE role, 1;
Mallaby mission, 1;
Castellano’s journey, 1
Royal Navy: Mediterranean forces, 1; Fleet Air Arm, 1;
SOE role, 1, 2, 3;
Malta submarine base, 1, 2, 3;
NKVD assistance, 1
Rusca, Luigi: contact with SOE as Badoglio’s emissary, 1, 2, 3, 4; War Cabinet’s rejection of peace proposals, 1, 2;
SIM monitoring communications, 1, 2, 3;
loss of contact with SOE, 1, 2;
arrest and imprisonment, 1
Rusconi, Emilio, 1
Ruttledge, Alfred, 1, 2
sabotage: Section D’s work, 1, 2, 3; SOE role, 1, 2;
targets, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7;
railways, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
shipping, 1;
recruits, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
training, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
Tragino aqueduct, 1, 2, 3;
Mexican radio station, 1;
Italian factories, 1;
New York docks protection, 1;
Sicilian campaign, 1;
supplies, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8;
viaduct plan, 1;
Tigrotti ‘successes’, 1, 2, 3, 4;
Almerigotti’s ‘successes’, 1, 2
safe houses: DF Section’s role, 1; Sarfatti’s mission, 1;
McCaffery’s proposals, 1;
provided by SIM, 1, 2, 3, 4;
Paladino’s offer, 1
Salerno: SOE landing, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6; Allied landing, 1, 2, 3, 4
Salò Republic, 1
Salsilli, Emilio, 1, 2
Salt, Dame Barbara, 1, 2
Salvadori, Joyce, see Lussu (Joyce)
Salvadori, Max (Massimo Salvadori-Paleotti, ‘Max Sylvester’): appearance, 1, 2, 3; character, 1;
family background, 1, 2;
political views, 1, 2, 3;
education, 1, 2;
political activism, 1;
arrest and imprisonment, 1, 2;
meeting with ‘Mr Constable’, 1, 2, 3;
Spanish activities, 1;
first job for British, 1;
teaching in US, 1, 2, 3, 4;
contact with Fascist officials, 1;
work with British, 1, 2, 3;
work with Section D, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;
in US, 1, 2, 3;
career with SOE, 1, 2;
as ‘Emmett Williams’, 1;
Mexico missions, 1;
report on Mafia, 1;
accounts of plans to assassinate Mussolini, 1;
in Mexico, 1;
in London (1943), 1;
SOE salary, 1;
army commission, 1;
Sicilian mission, 1, 2, 3;
response to news of Mussolini’s fall, 1;
post-Armistice career, 1;
father’s greeting, 1;
view of British SOE officers, 1;
decorated, 1, 2;
postwar career, 1
Salvadori-Paleotti, Guglielmo dei Conti, 1, 2
San Filippo brothers, 1
Sandino, Domenico, 1
Sanfilippo, Domenico, 1
Sanminiatelli, Bino, 1
Sanna, Major, 1
Sansom, Odette, 1
Sardinia: SOE plans, 1; Lussu’s background, 1;
Lussu’s project, 1, 2, 3, 4;
SOE mission, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;
SIM using Adler’s wireless set, 1, 2;
Plan ‘Barclay’, 1, 2;
SOE
misinformation scheme, 1, 2, 3, 4;
OSS misinformation, 1;
Separatist Movement, 1;
Piercy’s plan, 1;
Verney’s mission, 1
Sardinian Action Party, 1
Sardinian Brigade (Lussu), 1
Sarfatti, Lieutenant Giacomino (‘Galea’, ‘Giacomo Rossi’): appearance, 1; background, 1, 2;
character, 1, 2, 3;
education, 1, 2;
army service, 1, 2;
recruited by SOE, 1, 2, 3;
training, 1;
voyage to Malta, 1;
wireless operator in Malta, 1;
northern Italy mission, 1, 2;
journey to Italy, 1, 2;
in Milan, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
relationship with Klein, 1, 2, 3;
news of Mallaby’s arrival, 1;
journey to Switzerland, 1;
McCaffery contact, 1, 2, 3;
return to northern Italy, 1;
work with partisans, 1;
return to Switzerland, 1;
postwar career, 1
Sargent, Sir Orme, 1, 2
Sarpedon, SS, 1
Saunders, Sergeant Ernest, 1, 2
Savoy Hotel, 1, 2, 3, 4
Sbardelotto, Angelo, 1
Scamaroni, Godefroy (‘Fred’), 1
Scamporrino, Albino (alias Luigi Marino), 1
Schirru, Michele, 1
Schlotter, Paul, 1
Schuster, Ildefonso, Cardinal Archbishop of Milan, 1, 2
Schwerdt, Edmund, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Scudeller, Giovanni, 1, 2, 3
Scum of the Earth (Koestler), 1
Seawolf (felucca), 1, 2, 3
Il Secolo-La Sera, 1
Section D: creation, 1;
role, 1, 2; personnel, 1, 2;
Salvadori’s work, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;
Paris office, 1, 2, 3;
rail sabotage plan, 1;
activities, 1, 2;
formation of SOE, 1, 2
Selborne, Roundell Palmer, 3rd Earl of, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Selmone, Arnaldo, 1
Senise, Carmine, 1
Seraph, HMS (British submarine), 1
Serra, Salvatore (‘Pisano’): appearance, 1; background, 1;
character, 1;
recruited by SOE, 1;
SOE training, 1;
Sardinian mission, 1, 2, 3, 4;
capture, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;
wireless messages, 1, 2, 3, 4;
imprisonment in Rome, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
relationship with SIM, 1, 2, 3;
missing, 1;
reappearance, 1;
account, 1
Servizio Informazione Difesa, 1, 2
Servizio Informazioni Militare (SIM): creation, 1; role, 1;
personnel, 1;
records, 1, 2, 3;
counter-espionage section, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8;
interrogation of Gallo and Zappalà, 1, 2;
use of Rossi’s wireless set, 1;
funds and supplies obtained from British, 1, 2, 3, 4;
reports on Schwerdt, 1;
control of SOE courier, 1, 2, 3, 4;
co-operation with OVRA, 1, 2;
employment of Klein, 1, 2;
monitoring SOE communications, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7;
‘sabotage’ reports, 1;
capture of Paladino, 1, 2;
capture of Yugoslav students, 1, 2;
handling of Sarfatti, 1, 2, 3;
interrogation of Adler and Serra, 1;
use of Adler’s wireless set, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
use of Serra, 1, 2, 3;
capture of Rusca, 1, 2;
Mallaby’s mission, 1, 2;
SOE co-operation after Armistice, 1;
records of Adler’s fate, 1, 2;
revelation of Klein deception, 1, 2
Seton-Watson, Hugh, 1
Sforza, Count Carlo, 1
Sias, Maresciallo Maggiore Virginio, 1
Sicily: penal colonies, 1; SOE’s interest in, 1;
Operation ‘Why Not’, 1, 2;
Operation Washleather, 1;
Mafia, 1;
Allied preparations for invasion, 1, 2;
invasion (1943), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
SOE mission, 1;
anti-British feeling, 1
Silone, Ignazio, 1
Silvestri, Sergeant-Major Antonio, 1, 2, 3
Simpson, Captain George ‘Shrimp’, 1
Sinclair, Hugh, 1
SIS, 1
Skarbek, Krystyna (‘Christine Granville’), 1
Slovene nationalists, 1, 2
smuggling, 1, 2, 3, 4
Snedden, Owen, 1, 2
Snow, Captain Frank, 1
SO1, 1, 2, 3
SO2, 1
Socialist Party, Italian, 1, 2, 3, 4
Solic, Neda, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Sollima, Francesco, 1
Somalia, 1
Spanish Civil War, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Special Air Service, 11th Battalion, 1
Special Boat Section (SBS), 1, 2,
Special Boat Squadron, 1
Special Branch, 1, 2
Special Operations Executive (SOE): creation, 1, 2; organisational structure, 1, 2;
leadership, 1, 2;
DF section, 1;
Baker Street headquarters, 1, 2, 3, 4;
history, 1, 2;
sources for history, 1;
MI6 relations, 1, 2;
Frodsham’s work, 1;
recruits from internment camps, 1, 2, 3, 4;
recruits from Pioneer Corps, 1, 2, 3;
recruits from prisoners of war, 1, 2, 3;
recruits from US, 1;
recruits from Canada, 1;
Lussu recruited, 1;
recruits from East Africa, 1, 2, 3, 4;
motives of recruits, 1;
work in Italy, 1, 2, 3, 4;
Italian desk (J Section), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9;
Greek desk, 1, 2;
British Security Coordination, 1;
Lussu’s plans, 1, 2;
training schools, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7;
plan to assassinate Mussolini, 1, 2;
plan to assassinate Hitler, 1, 2;
Middle East and Mediterranean desk, 1;
invasion of Sicily, 1, 2, 3;
G Topo mission, 1, 2, 3;
X Section, 1;
Yugoslav Section, 1;
activities, 1;
Mussolini’s death, 1;
wartime record, 1;
results of deceptions, 1;
post-Armistice record, 1
Special Tribunal (Tribunale speciale per la sicurezza dello Stato), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Sporborg, Harry, 1
Sportsman, HMS, 1
Sproule, Paddy, 1, 2
Stafford, David, 1, 2
Stark, Freya, 1
Starr, Lieutenant George, 1
Stephenson, William, 1, 2
Strauss (Austrian railway engineer), 1, 2
Strazzera-Perniciani, Amedeo, 1
Strong, Brigadier Kenneth, 1, 2, 3, 4
Sunday Pictorial, 1
‘Sunrise’, Operation, 1
Switzerland: neutrality, 1, 2; border with Italy, 1, 2, 3;
Salvadori in, 1, 2;
railways, 1;
passports, 1;
SOE office, see Berne;
bombed in error by RAF, 1;
SIM agents, 1;
MI6 representatives, 1;
OVRA’s work, 1;
OSS representative, 1
Sybil, HMS (British submarine), 1
The Tablet, 1
Tamoni, Luciano, 1, 2
Taquey, Lieutenant Charles, 1, 2
Taranto, naval raid (1940), 1
Tarchiani, Alberto: friendship with Salvadori, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5; Section D meeting in Paris, 1, 2;
in US, 1, 2, 3, 4;
friendship with Lussu, 1, 2;
Sbardelotto’s story, 1;
Tigrotti plan, 1;
political career, 1
Taroni, Domenico, 1
Taylor, General Maxwell, 1, 2
Taylor, George, 1
Taylor, Leading Seaman Frank, 1, 2
Thame Park, 1
Thornhill, Lt-Colonel Cudbert, 1
Tigrotti: sabotage ‘successes’ reported to SOE, 1, 2, 3, 4; OVRA’s work, 1, 2, 3, 4;
relationship with McCaffery, 1, 2, 3, 4;
supplies from British, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
SOE plans, 1, 2;
discovery of deception, 1
Time magazine, 1
The Times, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Torretta, Francesco, 1
Totis, Guerrino, 1
Tragino aqueduct, 1, 2, 3
Travellers Club, 1
Traversi, Renato, 1
Tribune, HMS (British submarine), 1
Tridondani, Edouard, 1
Tripoli, British entry, 1
Tritone (Italian submarine), 1
Triumph, HMS (British submarine), 1, 2, 3, 4
Troina, fall to American troops, 1
Tucker, Captain Richard, see Mallaby
Tunis, Mafia exiles, 1
Una, HMS (British submarine), 1
Unione Siciliana, 1
L’Unità, 1
United States of America: neutrality, 1; SOE recruitment, 1;
intelligence officers and Mafia, 1;
Office of Naval Intelligence, 1;
Rome Embassy, 1, 2
El Universal, 1
El Universal Gráfico, 1
V., Dr, 1
Vacca, Ettore, 1
Valiani, Leo, 1, 2, 3
Vanden Heuvel, Frederick (‘Fanny’), 1
Vatican, 1, 2, 3
Verdeu, Giovanni, 1
Verney, Captain John, 1
Vetere, Ralph, 1
Vittorelli, Paolo, 1
Vittorio Emanuele III, King, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Völkischer Beobachter, 1
Vulcania (liner), 1, 2
War Cabinet, 1, 2, 3
War Office: MI(R), 1; paperwork, 1;
Picchi’s fate, 1, 2, 3;
Logie’s position, 1;
Italian recruits policy, 1;
Press Department, 1;
foreign currency supplies, 1;
on Bergonzoli, 1, 2;
Mallaby records, 1;