How He Knew
Received Priday, 7 p.m. " LONDON, Jan. 30. An amusing- story illustrating the ramilications of the. British aecret jservice during the war is told by Major-General Sir Colin Gubbins When lecturing to the Royal United Services Institution on his wartime job as head of the highly secret branch of the British Intelligence Service khown as Special Operations E^ecutiye. This organisqtion, SirColin disclosed, was responsible for the blowing up of the German heavy water plant at Vermak, Norway, in ly43. ",When the German Uom-mander-in-Cliiet in Norway, von Falkenborst, iq?pected the rtijps of the plant/' said Sir Oolin, "he deseribed it as oue of the fineSt ooups pf the war. If you ask me how I know that," he said, "it.is because one of my chaps was standing beside him when he said if
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Chronicle (Levin), 31 January 1948, Page 5
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