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Ebury Court Hotel, London

Elseminde farm

Esbensen, Detective

Esbjerg, Denmark

Falsterbo

Fanoe

Felkin, Squadron Leader Denys

Fermi, Enrico

Finno-Russian War

First World War

Fleet, Squadron Leader Donald

Fleming, Ian

Follett, Ken

Foreign Office

Northern Division

Treaty Department

Forest, Flight Officer

France

Frank, Charles

Free Danish

Free Danish Council

Free Dutch

Free Norwegian Headquarters

French

Freya radar

Frigurson-Sibson, Squadron Leader

Fyn

German Army

German Intelligence
see
Abwehr (German Intelligence)

German spies

Germans

and atomic weapons

in Belgium

in Denmark

and the Fanodar installations

and the First World War

and the invasion of France

and the invasion of Russia

in North Africa

potential victory of

radar technology

Germans

Sneum’s associations with

uniforms

use of torture

Germany

Allied bombing of

and the Anti-Comintern Pact

and atomic weapons

potential victory of

and V-rockets

Gestapo

Gibbs, James

Gloucester Hill Farm

Goering, Hermann

Goftenhafen (later Gdynia)

Goward, R.P.

Grandloese

Grantham

Gregory, Lieutenant (later Squadron Leader) Otto

Griffith (prison officer)

Gurney, A.E.

Gyberg, Werner

Gyberg and Jensen

Gyth, Captain Volle (‘Prince’ of Danish Intelligence)

Hadersley

Haestrup, Joergen

Hagedorn, Professor

Hahn, Otto

Hambro, Sir Charles

HAMILCAR
see
Danish Intelligence, ‘the Princes’ (HAMILCAR)

Hammer, Mogens (ARTHUR)

Hansen, Hans F.

Hansen, Thomas Sonnichsen

Harald Jensensgade

Hart, E.D.

Hastrup, Jorgen

Haw-Haw, Lord (William Joyce)

Hawker Hurricanes

Hawker Nimrod biplanes

Heisenberg, Werner

Helsingborg

Helvard, Angla Eugenia

Helvard, Arne

Himmler, Heinrich

Hiroshima

Hitler, Adolf

Hobro

Holbaek

Holbaek Battery

Holland

Hollingworth, Commander Ralph

Holmen naval base

Holtug

Home Guard

Hotchkiss tanks

Hotel Astoria, Copenhagen

Hotel Cosmopolit, Copenhagen

House of Anna, London

Howoldt, Fregatten-Kapitan Albert

Howard, Commander Rex

Hven

Iranian Embassy, London

Isle of Man, internment camps

Jaegersborg Kaserne, Copenhagen

Jaegersborg Kaserne, Kongens

Japanese

Jauch and Hubener

Jenkins, Mr (SIS instructor)

Jensen, Carl

Jensen, Gerda

Jensen, Harry

Jensen, Robert

Jensen, Stig

Jensen, Sylvest

Jews

Johannesen, Paul

Jones, Reginald Victor

Jordan, Harold

Junker aircraft

Jutland

Karstengren, Einar

Karup airstrip

Kastrup

Keyes House, London

Kiel

Killerich, Ole

Kingston House, London

Klemm aircraft

Klippinge

Knauer, Mrs

Knauer, Peter

Knivholt airstrip

Koege

Kongens Lyngby

Krefeld, Germany

‘L’ tablets (suicide pills)

Lake Como

Landskrona, Sweden

Langdorp, Brabant

Lars (navigator)

Larsen, Eivind

Larsen, Hans Henrik

Lee, Richard

Leuchars airfield, Scotland

Lille Belt Channel

Lindballe (mechanic)

Lloyd, Antony

Lloyd, Major General R.E.

London

Luftwaffe

Lunding, Major Hans (‘Prince’ of Danish Intelligence)

Lunn, T.R.

Malmo

Malmo prison

Mandoe

McArdle, P.D.

Meinicke, Hauptmann

Menzies, Stewart

Messerschmitts

109 fighters

MI5

hunting and interrogation of double-agents

on pilots as spies

and Sneum’s Fanoe radar film

and Sneum’s file

M16
see also
Secret Intelligence Service

Michels, A.A.

military police (British)

Milton Ernest

Milton Ernest Hall

mine-laying

Ministry of Information, Berlin

Ministr of Information (British)

Mitchell, Major Leslie

Moeller, Gertrud

Moeller, John Christmas

Moerch, Lieutenant Commander

Morpeth

Morse code

Munck, Ebbe

Munich

Naestved Garrison

Nagasaki

Napoleon Bonaparte

National Archive, Kew

Naval Intelligence (British)

Nazis

and atomic weapons

Danish

in Denmark

and the Fanoe installations

and Malmo prison

in Norway

radar advances

use of torture

Newcastle

Newmarket

Nielsen, Anders Peter

Nielsen, Gerda Tapdrup

Nielsen, Jens

Nielsen, Knud

Nielsen, Oestergaard

Nielsen, Svend

Nielsen, Vita

Njalsgade

Noerreheden, Thomas

Nordby, Fanoe

Nordentoft, Colonel Einar (‘Prince’ of Danish Intelligence)

Normander, Criminal Detective

North Africa

North Sea

Norway

Nurnberg
(ship)

Odense

Odmar, Politikommissaer

Oeresund

Olsen, Detective-Sergeant Roland

Operation Barbarossa

Operation Barbarossa

Oslo

Oslo Report

Ost, A.F.

Oxlund, Kaj

accompanies the Christopherson brothers from Denmark to Sweden

business problems

death

helps Tommy on the ground in Denmark

Oxlund, Tulle

Palm, Olaf

Park, Aage Koehlert

Park, Flight Lieutenant Hugh

Pasborg, Oda

Pedersen, Kjeld

Peenemunde, Germany

Petersen, Emil

Petersen, Holger

Petersen, Knud Erik

Petersen, Ove

Plymouth

Poland

Poulsen, Olaf

‘Princes, the’
see
Danish Intelligence, ‘the Princes’ (HAMILCAR)

Pringley, Wing-Commander

‘Q sites’ (decoy airfields)

Rabagliati, Beatrix

Rabagliati, Euan Charles

RAC Club, London

radar

on Fanoe

Freya

radio operations

‘Telephone Book’ radio set

RAF Acklington

RAF Cottishall

Randall, Alec

Rasmussen, Erik

Rasputin

Red Cross

Riiser-Larsen, Hjalmar

Ringsted, Denmark

Ringway Airport, Wilmslow

Rocard, Yves

Rodney House, height=n

Rome

Romoe

Roskilde Garrison

Roth, Henry

Rottboell, Christian Michael

death

recruited by the SOE and sent to Denmark

Rottboell, Mr.

Royal Air Force (RAF)

12 Pilot Advanced Flying Unit

Bomber Command

Squadrons

I Squadron

33 Squadron

94 Squadron

218 Squadron

234 Squadron

Training School

see also
RAF Acklington; RAF Cottishall

Royal Australian Air Force

Royal Flying Corps

Royal Lifeguards

Royal Navy

Danish Section

see also
Naval Intelligence

Royal Norwegian Air Force

Royal Observer Corps

Royal Patriotic School for Orphan Daughters, Battersea

Runerheim, Commissaire

Russia

German invasion of

St. Annaegade

St. Clement Danes Church

Sanky, Flying Officer

SAS (Special Air Service)

Scandinavia

Scavenius, Foreign Minister

Schaufer, Lieutenant Heinz-Wolfgang

Schleswig-Holstein
(ship)

Schou, Bjarke

Schou, Captain

Scotland

Scrivener, Flight Officer

/div>

Scrivener, Mrs.

Secret Intelligence Service (SIS)

54 Broadway building

British Scientific Intelligence

Denmark and Holland (Section A2)

French Section

‘Hannibal’ department

interdepartmental rivalry with the SOE

and Major Leslie Mitchell

MI5 conduct anti-spy investigations into

and the V-rockets

see also
MI6; Sneum, Thomas, in the SIS

Security Service

Senter, Commander John

Seymour, Major Charles

Shakespeare, William

‘Shetland Bus’

Shetland Islands

Shillinglaw, Pilot Officer W.G.

Siddons, Lieutenant

Skodsborg

Small, Flying Officer

Sneum, Aida (Thomas’s second wife)

Sneum, Alexandra (Thomas’s daughter)

Sneum, Axel (Thomas’s uncle)

Sneum, Christian (Thomas’s father)

Sneum, Christian (Thomas’s son)

Sneum, Else (Thomas’s first wife)

birth of her first child, Marianne

bumps into Tommy in Denmark during his SIS stint

first pregnancy

left by Tommy

post-war life

questioned by the authorities on Tommy’s location

returns to work following childbirth

takes secretarial course

and Tommy’s capture by the Swedish police

Sneum, Harald (Thomas’s brother)

Sneum, Karen (Thomas’s mother)

Sneum, Katherine (Thomas’s third wife)

Sneum, Margit (Thomas’s sister)

Sneum, Marianne (Thomas’s daughtespan>

Sneum, Thomas

children

daughter Alexandra

daughter Marianne

son Christian

in the Danish Fleet Air Arm

death

funeral

memorial service at St. Clement Danes Church

and the end of the war return to Fanoe

in England

in Brixton Prison following Malmo incursion

due to hang

interrogation

release

reprieval

visited by Otto Gregory

first wartime stay

interrogation

recruited into the SIS by Rabagliati

released from interrogation

in the SIS

joins the Royal Navy Danish Section

joins the Royal Norwegian Air Force

in London after his Milton Ernest stay

awarded back-pay by the SIS

meets Kjeld Pedersen

told about Helvard’s death

told of Sigfred

Christopherson’s death

in London on leave from the Navy

confronts Volle Gyth about his wartime incarceration

in Milton Ernest following release from Brixton Prison

returns to Britain following Malmo release

independent espionage work

and the Abwehr

dreams up assassination plots in Copenhagen

escapes Nazi-occupied Denmark in a stolen Hornet Moth

escapes Nazi-occupied Denmark to Sweden

Fanoe radar surveillance

interview with the author

invited to join the Luftwaffe

IQ

in Malmo prison following capture by Swedish police

release

threatens to expose Swedish agents

post-war life

awarded the King’s Medal for Courage

legacy

life in Rome and Lake Como

Sneum, Thomas -

post-war life -
continued

lifelong friendship with Kjeld Pedersen

moves to Switzerland

on Rottboell’s death

on the SIS-SOE rivalry

in Turkey as construction supervisor and test pilot

work as administrative director of the European Association of Advertising Agencies

work as managing director of air-charter/air-ambulance company

recognition

awarded the King’s Medal for Courage

post-mortem, by British Military Intelligence

in the SIS

atom-bomb information

becomes expendable

believed to be a double-agent

combat skills

file

internal investigations into

parachute training

recruitment

return to Denmark

atom-bomb information

attempts to extract

information from the

Abwehr

bumps into his wife Else

and the Christopherson’s and Oxlund’s departure

financial support

hunts down Sigfred Christopherson

jrney

meets the Princes of Danish Intelligence

moves into his last Danish

safe-house

moves into the Hotel Astoria

parachute drop

plots to kill agent

Christopherson

preparation for

quits Denmark

radio operations

and the recruitment of Duus Hansen

spinal fracture

tide turns against

Stig Jensen’s account of

training

Turnbull on

and the V-rockets

and women

Birgit Valentin

Emmy Valentin

first affair

Irene Andrews

marriage to Else

Oda Pasborg

Rosie/Rosy (club manager)

second wife Aida

third wife Katherine

Soeborg

Soenderho, Fanoe

Soetje, Hans (caretaker)

Somerset Maugham, William

Somerset Maugham, William

Sonnichsen Hansen, Thomas

Sovereign Military Order of Malta

Special Air Service (SAS)

Special Operations Executive (SOE)

chief

Danish Section

and Duus Hansen

General Section

and Hans Henrik Larsen

Holland

HQ, London

interdepartmental rivalry with the SIS

MI5 conduct anti-spy investigations into

Moeller’sreak with

P-Plan

recruits Rottboell

Scandinavian Section

Security Section

Stockholm

suicide pills (‘L’ tablets)

and ‘Table Top’

and the V-rockets

Speer, Albert

Spink, Reginald

Spitfires

Sporborg, Colonel Harry

SS

Stagg, Commander Frank

Stamer Lippisch gliders

Stevns

Stirling III aircraft

Stockholm

Suivie Club, London

Suivie Club, London

Sunderland flying boats

Svarrer, Hugo Lee

Sweden

Swedish Legation, Copenhagen

Swedish Naval Intelligence

Swedish Navy

Swedish police

Swedish spies

Switzerland

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