MISSING AIRMAN
BUDAPEST AGENT LINGUIST’S STORY BID TO REACH RUSSIANS (11.30 a.m.) LONDON, May 23. Warrant Officer Barratt. a member of the R.A.F., who is reported to have been arrested by the Russians in 1944, left Budapest in 1944 to make contact with the Russians to give them information he had collected from Allied escapees, says the Evening News. Miss Evelyn Gore-Symes, aged 26, a linguist of Twickenham, who went to Budapest in 1938, said, that Warrant Officer Barratt came to her flat in Budapest in 1944. A New Zealander, Captain Roy Natush brought him in the name of Jim Godden. Warrant Officer Barrett visited her several times, made contact with the underground and was in touch with London by radio until the transmitter was destroyed during an air raid. Miss Gore-Symes said: “Warrant Officer Barratt came to say good-bye in December, 1944. saying he was going to take all the information that my friends had massed and make contact with the Russians. Friends later told me that the Russians had treated him as a prisoner and took his watch and leather coat. That is the last I heard of him.”
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22338, 24 May 1947, Page 5
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191MISSING AIRMAN Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22338, 24 May 1947, Page 5
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