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Bernard O’Connor details how secret agents and agents provocateurs targeted military, industrial, transport, and telecommunication targets to erode civilian morale and disrupt the war effort. The narrative follows Nazi-backed sabotage networks, the recruitment and infiltration of trained agents, and the response by British intelligence, including decrypted enemy messages and double agents, while evaluating the successes and failures of these operations.","BERNARD O'CONNOR  \nHome-grown terrorists equipped by aforeign power are not a new phenomenon.During the Second World War,Hitler'sGermany made sustained efforts toinflict a terror campaign on the streets ofBritain through the use of secret agentsand agents provocateurs.The aim was toblow up military,industrial,transport andtelecommunication targets,to lower moraleamong the civilian population and disruptthe war effort.  \nEven before the outbreak of war,the Nazisprovided the IRA with assistance for theirplan to sabotage the British mainland.Priorto their planned invasion in the summerof 1940,the Nazis were also keen torecruit members of the Welsh and ScottishNationalist Parties to engage in sabotagingBritish targets and,over the course of thewar,infiltrated dozens of trained agentsfrom countries including Norway,Denmark,Holland,France and Cuba.  \nWhat happened to the myriad plots toblow up Britain?We know that intelligenceobtained from decrypted enemy messagesvia Bletchley Park and double agents likeZIGZAG,SUMMER and TATE alertedMI5 to some of these spies'arrivals,but whatabout the others?And how successful wereMI5's efforts to fake acts of sabotage andarrange media coverage to fool the enemy intothinking their agents were still at large andon task?In this book,Bernard OConnor,anoted wartime espionage historian,tells thecomplete story of the successes and failures ofthe Nazi terror offensive on mainland Britainduring 1938-1944.  \nhttps://archive.org/details/operationlenahit0000ocon  \n# OPERATION LENA ANDHITLER’S PLOTS TOBLOW UP BRITAIN\n\n# OPERATIONLENA AND\n\nHITLER'S PLOTSTO BLOW UPBRITAIN  \nBernard O'Connor  \nAMBERLEY  \nFirst published 2017  \nAmberley PublishingThe Hill,StroudGloucestershire,GL54EP  \nwww.amberley-books.com  \nCopyright ◎ Bernard O'Connor,2017  \nThe right of Bernard O'Connor to be identified as the Author of thiswork has been asserted in accordance with the Copyrights,Designs andPatents Act 1988.  \nAll rights reserved.No part of this book may be reprinted or reproducedor utilised in any form or by any electronic,mechanical or othermeans,now known or hereafter invented,including photocopying andrecording,or in any information storage or retrieval system,without thepermission in writing from the Publishers  \nBritish Library Cataloguing in Publication Data.A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.  \nISBN 9781445669632(hardback)ISBN 9781445669649(ebook)  \nTypesetting and Origination by Amberley Publishing.Printed in the UK.  \nContents  \nPrologue  \n7  \n1 The ‘S-Plan':the IRA's Nazi-backed plan to sabotageEngland-January 1939-March 1940102 The British Intelligence Services'response:Bletchley Park,Aston House,Brickendonbury Manor and the Sabotage Section173 The Royal Victoria Patriotic Schools,Camp 020,the Twenty(XX)Committee and double agents244 Arthur Owens,Gwilym Williams and the  \nWelsh Nationalist Party(Part 1)-1937-August 1940475 The Nazis'pre-invasion saboteurs in Eire-1940626 Operations MAINAU and SEAGULL:Dr Hermann Görtzand Helmut Clissman-May-August 1940687 Operations SEALION,GREEN,LOBSTER,SEAGULL andWHALE I and Ⅱ-July 1940738 Operations DOVE/PIGEON and SEA EAGLE(DOVE II)-August 1940-Summer 1941829 Operations OSPREY(FISCHADLER),PASTORIUS andSEAGULLⅡ-January-May 19428710 Operation LENA:Infiltrating pre-invasion Nazi agents intoEngland,September 1940-The 'Brussels Four'10611 Mrs O'Grady,sentenced to death for sabotage-August 1940-February 1941133  \n12 Arthur Owens,Gwilym Williams and the Welsh Nationalist Party(Part 2):October 1940-June 194213913 Three Cuban saboteurs land in Fishguard,Pembrokeshire,South Wales-November 194017214 MUTT and JEFF:Plan GUY FAWKES-April 1941-August 194217615 Plan BROCK:August-October 194219816 Plan BUNBURY and Operations HAGGIS andPORRIDGE-September 1942-June 194520217 Agent ZIGZAG and Operation THOMAS-December 1942-March 194322618 Agent PRINS,Potential Dutch saboteur-December 194225119 More potential saboteurs-AgentsSeptember 1941-September 194326120 ZIG","cbCaipqGinDZHzOU","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaipqGinDZHzOU","pdf",23239440,4,1,336,"English","en",105,"# Contents\n## Prologue\n## 1 The ‘S-Plan’: the IRA's Nazi-backed plan to sabotage England - 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