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"... But Jean Bey went to Britain, by air, October 21, 1944. (Source: AST). One must asked, how could Jean Bey get a (SOE?) ticket to Britain, from Sweden ? Was it because of his contact with Jane Horney, now in the endgame of a preparing of a snare, then ”plan B ”, during the autumn, 1944 ? (* Caird North had been back in Britain from September 10 to September 24, 1944. Scholars claims that only important people could get a ticket, to Britain, (as MI6 ´s ace, agent  ” Outcast”, Alexander Bellegarde, February 1944, through intervention of Cyril Ches-hire/PO/SIS (1943). General Onodera, the Japanese ma.,  claims that his contact with Garnier went through ”Bellegarde”, due to a CIA-www-doc.)
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The first ”visible” part was launched maybe through the British legation, April/May 1944, when Jean Bey called Caird North, May 17, (see my comments) and claimed he must go to Tällberg. Was this during the first possible liquidation attempt-period  on Jane during the summer 1944 ?

Then the Danish published in their ”De Frie Danske”, July, 11, a warning against Jane as ”German spy”, the Danish resistance man, Robert Andreasen, could act as British SOE-agent, and use an office room at the British legation to ”interrogate”, Jane. The Danes infiltrated the unsuspected Jane, and had issued a death sentence.  Then the Swedish paper´s Aftontidningen´s (s)  publishing,July 26, about that Danish spy-naming-sham-ing, and then Jane sued the paper, but she reached an economic, agreement in mid-Sep-tember. Then the ”phototrap”, August 18, through the Danish´s resistance initiative in Stockholm, her meeting with the German diplomat, K-H. Thorner to have some Danish prisoners free  – the s/s Gripsholm ”employment”, September 4, before she was arrested September 29 to October 13, because of the letter of serious accusations from the Danes, lt. Sven Mathiesen, and now interrogated daily, of the secret police, Stockholm. (* Some sources claims that this 14 days-event was staged of the pro-German, Secret police, to cause trouble for the C-bureau/H. Ternberg, Jane´s  main principal.)

This seems was the first phase of the conspiration, including the wellknown, Danish liquidator ” Flamman´s” visits in Stockholm, August/September , to prepare the attempt, but without result.

BEY TO BRITAIN  : OCTOBER 21: 1944:

Jean Bey was not allowed of the French diplomat, and head of the French secret intelli-gence in Sweden, major Pierre Garnier, to stay in Stockholm and meet Jane. Probably even Caird North was implicated/informed  in this secret moves, (May, 17) a French- British joint operation. Maybe Bey then had done his mission, by accusing Jane of being a German spy,  from May to September, and he was now lifted out from Sweden, to Britain, October 21, 1944. This maybe indicates again the British SOE´s/SIS involvement to facilitate the operation, targeting Jane Horney.

(*From an U.S. correspondent, quoting an OSS-source of July, 1944 about Jane: – – – Since her arrival in Sweden in the autumn of 1943 she has come to notice as attempting to pump volunteers for the Netherlands armed forces. She evinced particular interest in the methods of selecting volunteers for transport to the U.K.- – – 

Maybe this OSS-remark shed some new light over the contact with Bey. Jane claimed she had no interest in Jean Bey, what so ever, as not to ”spoil” his ”innocent” boyish reputation. We don’t know, if Jane knew about Bey´s coming repatriation to Britain, 1944, and groomed him. (*Neither  we don´t know the source of this OSS- information, concerning in fact – Dutchmen.) 

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But –  if due to Jan Bergman: U.S./OSS had deep interests in Jane´s  German/ Dan-ish/ Swedish contacts, 1944, to  early counter a Soviet influence,  there was no need of slander and neutralize Jane. But the British didn’t appreciate this secret network, claims Jan Bergman. (OSS had even fired  Jane Horney´s female friend, Danish refugee, Tove Nielsen, secretary to the U.S. pressattaché Karl Jensen, this contra-dicts Bergman´s claims.)

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(*There existed contradictions between British and U.S. warfare all over the war fronts it seems, not only  OSS vs SOE, in: Yugoslavia, Hungary, Denmark, (Sweden) but even in Norway. When U.S. 8th airforce bombed Norsk Hydro´s facilities at the Vemork and Rjukan, November 16, 1943, ”heavy water. industries/ ammonia/hydro-gen /fertilizers ”, the second raid in three months, but the heavy water production, was not damaged, but 20 Norwegians became victims, this was against British intentions, this was instead a  ”Station List”, SOE-target. They blew the local ferry, from the plant  instead, with heavy water cargo bound for Germany, but with civil victims. But the 8th Airforce even attacked the molybdenum mine at Knaben, the one only  operative, (for  armour-plate) partly owned of Ax:son Johnson´s  as the  British didn’t protest.) (Source : A.H. Storeide: Norske krigsprofitörer. 2015) 

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(*Another but,  press-source, then former Iceland´s minister in Stockholm, Vilhjalmur Finsen,  claimed that Jane Horney visited him at the legation, and asked if she could go with some courier-aircraft to Iceland. (*Maybe this in connection with some mission for Ernst Gilbert, 1944.)

The minister, answered no, but claimed later from some observations, that information from the legation reached the German legation, and could be traced to Jane, that day.)

(*  A source, mentions a contact 1942/1943 with the German press/film-attaché in Copenhagen, dr Karl Frielitz, and that Jane could pass the border, without being searched, because she carried papers for the Gilbert´s STB. It was Frielitz, who assisted H.E. Gilbert to open the news agency, the: Skandinavisk Telegram-bureau, 1936, with support of the German propagandministerium. But Frielitz was mentioned (of 14) in the Pflugk-Harttung spycase, 1938, due to a comprehensive OSS-report/Handbook X2 Number- stations www, from March 15, 1944, but without Gilbert´s name.)

(*But, Bey was not alone in going to Britain, from the French colony in Sweden, due to Vaux Saint-Cyr, about 800 Frenchmen (another source, gives 400)  arrived to Sweden 1942-1944, PoWs, but even volunteers as workers in the German industry, and many could with Swedish compliance, go to Britain, to join the de Gaulle-movement.) (* Later about 2.000 French citizens arrived from the German KZ, Neuengamme/ Ravensbrück.)

The presumed reason for Horney´s fate  was as Jan Bergman claims in the Expressen, (December 26, 2017 /E.Lagerström-Dyrssen) that Jane carried important documents, and information between the German RSHA-intelligence in Copenhagen and the Swedish C-bureau,(military foreign intelligence.), in some cooperation with the U.S./ OSS in Stockholm, to counter the possible expected Soviet influence,  post war.” Denmark was a British sphere of interest, and by that, Jane banked on the wrong horse, (*but was most a C-bureau /Helmuth Ternbergagent, knew him since Berlin, 1941-1943.) Jan Bergman: ”Horney was neutralized because of the purpose to silence  and block a secret  intelligence collaboration, with Germany.”

I think this train of thoughts even explains the fate of Raoul Wallen-berg, and his U.S. WRB/OSS-connections, (probably cheated of the Russians to visit Moscow on a ”diplomat & journalist ” trip) (*as Edvard af Sandeberg claimed, but from Berlin, May 1945, but for Jane a trip to Denmark to exonerate herself, but the Danes saw her as a security risk.)

The same week, days,when Jane was shot on a fishing boat, in the (Öre)Sound 19 January 1945, and that the British intelligence maybe had some influence, in both cases, of the same reasons, peacefeelers,  influence, & the ”intelligence war”, SOE vs OSS,  maybe through med-iation of H.Caird North in both cases, and maybe the Russian NKVD-man, Igor Spitchkine, (*in Stockholm to September 1944, but then in Budapest, since January 1945, as Caird North, then got a special personal message from the Swedish minister in Moscow, Staffan Söderblom, about Raoul´s arrest, January 17, 1945.)

It seems to be a British (and maybe French/Horney) involvement, of what kind, not exactly known, both for Jane and Raoul, through Caird North´s telephone calls with key persons, in distinct point of time, the archivals leaving little room for doubts, about that. But more exact ”paper trail ” than that, is not possible to reach, today. But of course Britain must have kept a personal file for Raoul Wallenberg, as the 122 pages, they did for Pierre Garnier, that’s a realistic presumption.) ..."

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"... From Jean Bey´s and (André´s) personal file, from the interrogation of the police at Hälsingborg, (Issued July 13 1943), and later the Social Board,(Socialstyrelsen/ The Foreigner´s bureau, important, dealing with visa and working permits) where they arrived July 8, escaping from Germany.
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(The articles on Referat & citat = European contemporary history & policy: * Raoul Wallenberg and his times: may be freely quoted provided the source is cited, their integrity is respected and they are not used for commercial purposes. )

THE ESCAPE AS GERMAN POW´S: 1943:

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Jean Bey arrived to Sweden in company with Michel André, both been PoWs in the German Stalager II A (Stammlager) Neu Brandenburg. They escaped together hiding in a boxcar from Warnemünde, destination Sweden, from July 4:

”Bey then first broke, the seal, then they arranged inside, an hideout with their belongings, but Bey could then close the door from outside, and pull the seal, back in place, as they then could creep back through a small window. The boxcar was checked July 6, but they weren’t disclosed, and the same day, the train went through Denmark, to Helsingör, and July 8, with ferry to Helsingborg, was checked once more, but… then they arrived , called for attention of Swedish railway personnel and the police, and could later after usual identification, questioning, medical examination, leave for Stockholm and the Socialstyrelsen, (Utlänningsbyrån) and the ‘French legation, Friday July 9.”
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BORN IN PARIS:

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Bey (b.19) was son of the restaurateur Clement Bey, living at the Paris city-address, VI, Rue de Faubourg, no. 90,S:t Antonie, and after the school 8 years he spent three years(3) in a restaurateur school, then one year at his father´s restaurant, Au Boillon Moderne /Paris, before volunteered, (*must be about 1937) to the French infantry regiment no 46, at Fontainbleu, where he was pro-moted to NCO, March, 1939. He was not married.

During the war, 1940, May 10, he fought the Wehrmacht, near the border to Luxembourg, but his regiment waslater deployed to the south, and became PoW in the village of Aire in the department of the Ardennes, July 11, 1940. In Germany, to the Stalag II A, Rostock, in an ”Arbeitskommando.” He planned from beginning to escape to Sweden, but first, when he met Michel André, were they able to organize an escape, after three years. He then worked outside Rostock, at Warnemünde, went by train, to a ”dr Heinkel´s” house, and saw the railway station filled with freightcars…

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BEY AND ANDRÈ: FOUGHT AND SURRENDERED IN THE FRENCH ARMY : 1940:

Michel André (b.12), son of the actor Marcelle André, Rue de Rome, no 135, Paris. He went through the schools, École Bossuet in Paris, second schools , Louis Le Grand , and Pasteur, and became student, 1928. Then employed of Rapid Pullman Service, Place Vendome, no 16 for three years, before he like his father became an actor, but was conscripted, 1934-1935, The Dragoon regiment no. 4, at Verdun. Married with Simone van Bellingen, had a son, 7 years,and lived, now at the Rue Bixio no 14, Paris VII.

(* Michel André acted in many French movies, (and radio/plays, 275), got the Le Prix Rejeaude theatre, during the 1930s, and even in a Swedish movie/crime-drama, 1944. : På farliga vägar = On dangerous roads, with then wellknown: Birgit Tengroth, Sture Lagerwall, Erik ”Bullen” Berglund, and Michel André, as the French engineer : ”Gaston Bartou.” First night December 26, 1944. (Source : http:Svensk filmdatabas/ Wikip. På farliga vägar) (*Jean Bey and Jane Horney met first March 20, as ”extras” in a Swedish movie-studio.)

André was called up one week before the outbreak of the war, May 1940, fought, but became German PoW May 23, at ”Mazingarle” (must be the Mazingarbe village – 100 km south of Dunqerque/ Dunkirk) of Pas de Calais. In Germany, to Woserin in Mecklenburg, working in a swine stable, then to Dickhof, a gravel-pit, then to Rostock (Arb.komm. B377/Marienee II), where he met Jean Bey. (*The French army’s defeat, the summer of 1940, made another, about 2 million soldiers PoWs for Germany, a figure to be compared with the Red army’s surrendering units, of the same scale, 1941, during the German Barbarossa/” Red Beard” initial phase, June -December 1941, the Blitzkrieg.)

JEAN BEY:

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Jean Bey later had employment , at the wellknown, Restaurant Hasselbacken, Stockholm, Djurgården, from July 30 – October 30, 1943, then living  at the Listonhill, (Lilla Villan), at the Djurgården, had applied for, residence visa, labour permit, as cook (cuisinier) his reference, the French de Gaulle legation, (Vaux Saint-Cyr) Karlavägen 60.

December 21, 1943, Bey had new working permit as actor and visa and language teacher,(The Folkuniversi-tetet) from November 1943, to May 26, 1944, and stayed at the Holländargatan no. 24., c/o Geddes, (widow and former teacher, adjunct.)

June 1, 1944, Bey was back in Stockholm, but had sent in his passport from Tällberg May, 22,(where he stayed 17-31 May) for prolongation of the Socialstyrelsen, of his visa, permit stay, for six months, May, 26- December 26, 1944, as teacher of languages, and actor och was approved,  stayed then at: c/o Milton, Döbelnsgatan 77 B.

Jean Bey seemed maybe more, patriotic, (French army volunteer 1937) in Sweden and with his connection to the French legation, and Pierre Garnier, the military attaché, in some joint British/French intelligence mission, from his information to Jane Horney, during their meeting, the spring of 1944, as his contact with Herbert Caird North, May 17, (*how come this contact ?) and his perhaps rare departure, a SOE-ticket, to Britain, October 21, 1944.

From the source: Transatlantic Antifascisms/ Michael Seidman. – (2018) Cambridge UP. : – – – ” During the reconquest of Normandy (1944), the British cooperated thoroughly  with Gaullist civil authorities. De Gaulle´s headquarters in London, used its: Commission d´Action Militaire, which coordinated the parachuting of supplies, to hinder Communist hegemony. By August 1944, anti-revolutionary Gaullists decide to nationalize the maquisards (underground)  and Resistance fighters, with the goal of integrating and moderating revol-utionaries.- – –  The weight of Communists in the resistance disturbed both Washington and London, which acted to strengthen its non-Communist element. They supplied weapons only to non-Communist French Resistance movements, and as early as December 1943, Eisenhower, pledged that Free French troops would be among the first to enter Paris.The 2nd armoured Division, (Leclerc´s) led the march into the capital on 24-25 August, 1944.” – – 

Maybe Seidman´s tight but very interesting study, (338 p.) gives  clues of Jean Bey´s fate, that last fall of the war, but pointing as in Denmark, to the conditions what even decided, Jane Horney´s and Ernst Gilbert´s´s fate, of 1944/1945. Thinking even of Raoul ”the II ”, Nordling, the Swedish consul in Paris, since many years, the ”Saviour of Paris”, in negotiations with the German forces, general Choltitz, 1944.

From that to the Warzaw uprising, the same time, and Raoul Wallenberg, staying in Budapest, a potential liasion man in such ventures, with the Hungarian resistance, signs of that, are not lacking, from start, July 11, the young legation secretary, maybe viewed as an ”young intelligence operative”, but in another ”sphere of interest”, ruled with tougher means, but anyway possible to anticipate, from the Western Allies and Sweden’s own political measures.

Paris-Warsaw-Budapest, I find this ”axis” of capitals of 1944, before, as even symbolic dangerous battle-grounds, between the Allies military offensives,, and the national resisters/underground, a fact most avoided of the Swedish government and her Foreign ministry (UD), and their contemporary, analysts, unable to ”read the play”, and the risks, both before and after, January 17, 1945 –  or was Wallenberg expendable?

M.Seidman: ” – – – Ultimately, though the Western Allies did not have  to match, the Nazis in military ruthlessness and brutality, since their Soviet partner performed that function. Indeed only,  because of the willingness of the Soviet Union to sacrifice its own citizens more massively than Germany, was nazism vanquished as quickly as a it was. – – –

Must be add, and even the big Jewish ghettos in Budapest, about 70.000-(100.000 = 25.000 in hiding, or more?) people, were in the end rescued of the Red Army’s military force, with their 80.000 own casualties, due to most serious scholars. ..."

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Décret du 25 février 1946 portant attribution de la médaille des évadés avec citation à l'ordre de la brigade entraînant le droit au port de la Croix de guerre (JORF du 26 mars 1946 - )

(Source : Yves MORIEULT)

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