All the King's Men
“That view has been sustained in a great many accounts and histories. I can find no evidence to support it. Of course there were lapses and small indiscretions, as there were in the very best networks, but it seems to me there are a great many apocryphal stories of carelessness and indiscretion that have been incorporated as fact in the SOE canon.The premature collapse of the PROSPER network came as a surprise to John Bevan at the London Controlling Section. He had hoped it would survive right u...p to D-Day and beyond. No one, except perhaps Dansey, had any idea how badly compromised it was. Consequently, PROSPER’s departure from the scene created a gap in that part of Bevan’s scheme to promote COCKADE – with still two months to go. Most people who knew how PROSPER was being used to promote COCKADE naturally presumed that the increase in the network’s activity to cope with all the arms drops was the only reason for its collapse. Déricourt’s involvement was still a watertight secret.MoreLess
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