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The three intelligence officers he spoke to were only able to suggest Bertoli, along with another man who had since been released, as being of possible use for SOE. The officer noted that Captain Myers of the Palace Camp, where Bertoli was being held, considered him a ‘good man’. ’18 The reports on Rosa, Bertoli and Purisiol compiled following completion of the course at Bellasis were far from glowing endorsements of their abilities. Rosa was considered ‘rather selfish, individualist as Frenchmen generally are Could not make a leader but may prove a very useful subordinate if well led’.
Unit. C. but taken straight from internment into training by us. C. 45 Rumours and circumstantial allegations now compounded the growing sense of unease about Purisiol, who ‘appears to be distrusted by all those with whom he has been’ (‘on one occasion Purisiol admitted to another member of the party that he had only volunteered for service with us in order to get out of internment’; ‘Although there is no reason to suppose that he did not fight in the Spanish Civil War, other members of his party all maintain that he has never been able to give any instance of having been anywhere near any fighting’).
Holvoet, known as ‘Badger’, was a Belgian agent, born in Coutrai in January 1924. 96 Upon his arrival, he was duly held in segregation. 97 Holvoet was interrogated on 6 August. The following day, a security officer wrote to Roche, noting, It is quite clear that a bad mistake was made ever to have recruited such a completely irresponsible young man to work as a W/T operator for an important organisation. He himself admits to having his photograph taken, dressed in his parachute kit, to having given demonstrations of his arrival, to pretending to be joint head of the organisation, to having been sent by the British to spy on his leader Griffin and to having deliberately passed on untrue information to his chief.