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_/ Report trom LERKEN

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Brief report on an Expedition le.st!M from ~oth January . 1942.

up to the 9th L:ax. 1~)42~

I \70.8 working in a Polish work_shop with tho r.Ilin objeot

of nBk1ne a battery set Bultable for mo.klne oontaot betwoen

the U. K. and the southern 'part at' Norway .

I reoeived orders to go to Trondheim in order to keep

check on tho GerLllln .,srohlps reported t o be in Trondheimstjord

at that t ime . They wore proswnebly the Tirpltz and a cruieer

of about 10, 000 tons .

---rr;;,,;;;orco~Y""""'-""'''''',"_''''a....J'''''Ullli!ion tho tOllO\~ day t'or tho ShetlandS togetmr '71th Lieutenant 'lUrner. By

arrangement w1th S . C. E. I should be t aken t,UOrtl8.y with the

tiohing vessel FEYE , with the skipper Larsen ~h1B 0 at'

and left the base in Northern Shetland on the 26th Janue.ry for

6. plo.oe noar Krlstlnnsund , whioh had boon deoided u:pon by

the skipper, Turner and DYself . I had with me a sufficient

amount of pe t rol to Get .by car from Kristiansund to Trondheim

and baok . It was deoided that I Dhould go to Trondheim on r:q

ovm Sa quickly as ,possible , report about the movements of the

ohips and at the earno time , try to provide a IlBl1 to take over

Iqy' "IT . T . set and then as soon sa ,possible , get out oither throU€h

Sweden or by boat. no further arranaements were made . bu~ as

rbad...parriod out o1Iililar l70rk beforo , thin t78.a not ~idered

neo8B.Q8.l';( .

On t l wo.y oVQr , the motor Gtop,pod owing to \"Itlter in the

fue l. '!he.~ '!!leor however , got it going and we also put up

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boom broko. Under these oonditione , \'10 so t 0. bit out ot

oourse and deoided to hend tor Stadt in order to find a

landnBrk and then tollow the coast about 25 miles out to sea

up to our dostination. On the following a t'ternoon, wo sighted

snow ooverod mounta.ins . '!he boat had then, owing to tho

heavy weather , BOt a oono!derable leak. One of tho orow

found out where Vie were and \'19 went into a bay north of'

Vnage¢y for the night . Some fishermen oame out to us . 1hey

guessel1.:: ~ mt once where we oame from. They told us about

the Mfl.nl¢y raid, Whioh , in their opinion, vtaO ent1rely

Bucc9ssrul . No reprisals had been takon aBS-1hat the oivil ian

popullltl0.n except that tho relatives ot those who had gone

to tho U.K. \71th the raiders were punished aooording to the

earlior Cerman decree. Apart from this . the population wae

about t

./e got some Norwegian matches and newspapers and sane

loose money from them, and the following morning the skipper

deoided to try to get a neu boat :f"rom the diBtriot to take

me ·north and to go baok t o Shelland Vl ith t he FEYEf for repair ,

as we found diffioulties in finding wharves in Noroay to repair

our boat. \'78 f irst asked t he :fishermen fie had oontaoted it

they Vlould take me north . !Illeir boat had go t a tishiDG pass

but ooul d not s t ay too. lon.g away from 1 ts baas beoause of'

frequent oontrol by the Cerman authoritieS. Their owner

deo ided not to risk it .. We then \1on.t .:south to K1nn where we

thousht we coul d ge t a boat, but this boat turned out to be

out or ardor. fie then deoided to go to Buelandet to oontaot

Wl~rv~. On t he wsy, VIS oalle in o;~u:b~!..:'e Pi wao landed 80m& , t1me BBo' oy the oe.me crew in order to send informatlon about peSO lD(!:

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ships . On arrIval there , it turned out that Pi wae without

oontaot as his set had brokon down. This was the evening of

the .c8th January. 1 thoUGht I coul d possibly rella1r h1e Bet ----

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for it . Ilis set was 6 lilrk III . 'lhe mo:bor generator

worked but gavo too high tension, ,Possibly duo to the oold

weather - thore was 50 degrees Fahronheit at frost (-27 degroeo

oent16rado) wh10h 1s very cold on tho ooas t . '!be rieB1.ns of the

thG oh1p e.ndl.daok 'BB, all oovorod by thiok .layers of 108 and

it U8.a diffioult to move about. 'lhe motor £Onerator '1Q.8

Bupl)osed to aiva 150 volta A.C~ but DIlSt have civen at least

::lOO . Tho .Pi Bet did not work whl.lBt Ilij" Dlrk III set v/orked

Vloll. I tried to contaot tho U. K. at onco with Lerkm I

sohedule but dld not aohieve contact . It later turned out

that this wno probably beoause they dId not .listen 1n f'or me

in spIte at: the taot thnt I had Asked thom t o lioton tor me

frOm the moment I lett tho Shetlanda . Pi would not l ot me

work on h1s schedul e as ho had eot dOfinite orders to koop

that t o hlmaol1'.

sohedule nUh tho aerial hoisted up in tho mast and so far

as I could judea. in a l"avourable poel tion ror tranemi9alon ..

It is beyond doubt that tho Bot t1orkod rl8ht . Our plan was

n~ 8S soon as VlO sot oontaot , tQ1-8port to the U. K. tor

fUrther instruotion£) and propose thnt I wont nort h by. other

moQD.G than !'EYE and that F.EYE should return and that they

should look out for her wi t h air rooonnai8oanoe .. A8 oontaot

WBD not aohieved the skl:pper and I 4001404 t o oarry out this

plan all tho 8alOO . Pi tm.nt ed to SO baok wit h the FEn: as

ho h1rooolt sald that he wae not oonw9tent to do tho job

without turther trnln1ne.

• -motor generat or \ms .placed

inside the boat in the oargo room. Suddenly tho Dkl:pper came

to me and asked .me 11' I know tUlythlng about Firat Aid booause

ona at the oran, C. "IUS very Diok . Ho vms lyiIlB in his bunk

in the room tOl'\"ID.rd und I was called to Geo him. I thousht

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on deok, a l!IlD, E, nho ehouJ,4 hel» me to carry him Ul' .

oleo tainted attar a ahort while . 1'1 than W88 oalled to the

rOIJouo end in spite ot sl18eBstlcns thnt C and E oould stay

in the orow's room, Wi) got. tho two 1Ioisoned men on dook

'rlhero , booauco of the oold, they wore plaoed on blAnlcota .

Allor us wore af"teotod by tho ,gna but we at onoo atarted

artifioial respiration on C and E. I s t arted on C and the

others , when they he.d learned how to do it, wont aD ,

alternnt.1ne:. Only aftor about 10 minutes dld E begin to

broath ot hiD O\'7D. aocord, and atter about half' on hour ' s hard

work, C reoovorod very slowly but wao not muoh use {'or the

rest ot the trip . I then paoead out tor a ehort while but

reoovered very 800n. !J.rJ we wore lylne at the quay where tho

in f'rom Dorgen. vie thought rre had botter eot

a£ BOon

'!he morning ot the 29th, we ao t out to find A and

hoped to 1lBke him taka me north. A wne alrea4¥ oonto.oted and

ho had prom1eed to do his beat . We anohored u,p in the little

bay on Duelandet l7bere we met him. nie motor had however

broken dO\7n and he oould not hol p us . At the SWllO time \Ve

got infol'Wltlon :from F1C?~y t hat tho Carmona oheokod all

traf'rio o.nd were restrlot~ the movoments ot :flsh1..ns boats.

tie tried aenin to oontaot the U. K. to re:port this and to send

a tele(trOJn oaying: "Contaoted Pi . Everyth1ng otherw1Sa wroIl8.

\'10 are oom1IlC...baok but do not '70rry Vie VI try . 1n" but

no 00 taot was aohieved we deoide4 to taka Pi baok with

us and 0810 out to try to reaoh Sbotl.Ond.

It was atl11 0014 but tho weather ,vas better althouGh

there W8a quite a stroDe' wind from the north-west. fie set

out about dusk on the 29th. The wind bl.aw up nnd ws (l f'ull

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sequenoe of t his , t he ooolins 3a oke t ot t be motor br oke .

As the })oom was broken, we had only one small tor ea8il. t o

use and tried t o keep our oourlls while t he cr ew made a new

boom. ~anwhlle I again t rie d wi t h lI\Y se t t o make c ont a ot

wi th t he U. K. with no result. The gener a t or was noVl t ied

on de ok. The eng ineer was working ha rd in order t o make the

motor go and event uall y bot it goIng a t baI t speed.. biu t the

water woe s till l eak lDB out of the wa ter jacket . In the

ev eniIl8 Vie Sight ed l and a t the extreme north of t he She t!onde

and arr iVed a t boae a t about mi dnight . Heavy SDOW had f a llen

on the Shet l a nd I olande . Capt ain Mitchel l i n Lerwlok woe

no t if' ied of' our return ot once and t he f'ollowi ns morning I

wae t o t elephone I,ondon trom Lerwlok a t noon. I t her e fo re

borr owed one of the Hillman Minx care a nd \7i t h Pi and the

ski,p,per ee t out for Lerw1ok .

t hrough to Lerw10k a t about 12 . 30 . I t alked with Conmander

Wolsh i n London and I demande d t ha r i ght t o oome back to

London a nd re,port bef ore t ryinc a BO- i n .

P i a nd I l et t Shet land by p l nne on t he 1st February ,

a nd a.rrive d i n Lo ndon by t r ain on t he even ing ot the 3r d .

r The t r a in waa 9 hour s l a t e . VIe reported ba ok a t 80 Vando n Oour t ,

Lyder Larsen .. as a l so oalled ul) there. He thought t hat Pi ' e

sa t had broken down becaus e of we t wea t her . I am however near ly

aura tha t i t \'18 a oaused by t he b~enlcdo\7n of an electrolyt io

condenee r owi ll8 t o t oo hish tenBion tram the motor gener a t or .

It wa s de0140d t hat I shou l d rooke a not her a t tem,pt t o ge t

t o Trondhe im as so on a s 0 ibI s . In addi t ion t o t he I.:nrk I II

and the 1,!a rr.: V (the very firs t ;:ark V made ) I now t:ot a Polish

se t wi t h an output p orter of about 7 watts with a 6 . V. G. va l ve

i n the t ransmitter. I knew t h iB ee t trom Ti:i wor k a t the Polish

wor k- s hop and did not need further ins t ruotions . I wae t o use


1118 Second Attompt .

On the oven1n& ot the 4th February. I loft London

aB8in with Lioutenant Turner ribo '\\"88 to aooompany' mo over

to No1'\'"tay -en ~ m. t . v .. DRO'l'T t aooord1nB to sealed orders that \Ve took with us. We had also 80me dtu::m:f orders in oaS8

they should tall into tho hando ot the enen:u. on arrival

at Shetland it turned out that tho DROl'T WRS not at all

esa-worthy.. The orew ml8 not willing to take another boat

that ml8 ott'erod to thom. The tly-whoal of thiD boat - the

ERXNA. \1fl8 loooe and I oould understand tho orew ' a pomt ot

view. At the eame time, there nere in Shetland two S. O. E.

asents (,,/hom I already lalew) 8cooIlU)alli~ by a Lieutenant.

Colonel trom the S . C. E. They were to 60 to BOJD)whero near

I!W dODt1natlon and it was s\1Ce88to4 that I oould eo w1th thorn. • D er t.el.ephone

oonversations VIi th Loncfi,n , 1t was deoide4 that we all three

shouiLd GO with the same boat - the ARTHtJR . The skipper \"taB

ID.rson and the orew nearly' tho BOmB 8e on the FEYE . !'EYE

wna at that t1Ioo being overhauled. On the morniIl8 ot the

8th W8 transferred the petrol and the prOVisions trom FEi':E

. to AR'mUR and oet oft ho.v1n8 dooided thie time to go otraisht

tor a 60int north ot Stadt and then to our destiDfl.tion north

.ot the Trondhe1mef.1ord at a distEUloe of about 26 milee out to

sea . We thon would keejl within tho 11m1t tbat the Gel"llWlO

allowed tor tho t iBh1n8 vassels and hope to be tor onoUCh out

not to be obcarvod trom lImd.

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On the ovenine at tho 10th, WO WOll~ in to a p.laoe l' on

e, aid ot tho is1o.nd G. fle t here reoeived intortOO.tion trom n senernl merohant H who i8 a relative ot

J, about how t o get t o Tron.tpiuim. It turned out that a

ooaotaJ. torr" boat was going in t o Trondho1m trom the placo K

on the ls1o.nd G the next do)," . Wednesday" mornins at 11 0 ' clock.

We 8 :thg boat and: •• n.t. .....


morning. rle wont in to the local post and telephone offioe,

and waited thore :for the boat . It was a lovely mornlns With

new fallon snO\7 and Q s trong wind, and we fel t qu ite happy end

a t home 'while Vie >lora wn1tins l'or t he t'arry boot to arrive.

'Tie told the peopla thore that we wore BurveylIlB tor rortl1'loe-to be bu ilt on the

tiona/outer 1elendo. IVe l'rotonded to be opportunlets who took

work tor tho Germane t hrough tho 1'1rm L und that we had

survey inat ruments 1n all our cases . Tho boat arrived at

1 0 ' c1001.: and cot into Trondhoim on the evening or a.b.ursday",

12th. There was a ;pol lclJJl'lfUl looking through the boat and it

f18.S t herefore quit e oonvonlant that a GGrnnn soldler offerod

to carry' one of nw radio set a ashore . He IDEldo a renerk about tho extrqord1ne.rily hoavy weight 01' it .

I hore parteCi. from TIr.I two 1'riends and dld not see thom

I thereforo fJont

to a telephone box and t!»honed my old oontaot JJ who turned out

to h.£l.vo cone 1'ro~ tho town. I then tried to telephone to N to vlhom I had cot a l.etter 01' introduotion from 0 , but did not

get through. A13 it wns Botting late and something had t o bo

done , r 'phoned tho Taxi Cab Centre whioh has been established

to see that taxia are only used in uraent oases , and sa1d I

woo o.t the railTI8.Y station with a lot of lU&.;nse and wnted

c. taxi urgently .. I then eot this taxi to take me to the

place P Vli10re N lived. At t his time thoro was more fJnow in

Trondheim thlln t here had beon for a. long time and the snow

drIfts were more than tl'10 1!l9trea hiGh.. The taxi therofore

could not Bet t hrouj,l!l to house but had to wait t or me

f'U:bthar down. I root N' .:3 wite and lator U who soon came in

trom a v1sit to Q. I~ a t onoo undorst ood tbo.t m::J' let ter 01'

int roduotion was genuino . I also told him J113' real nome and

h e knew my family .. II~ could not hOVTever 'put me up tor tho


through oontaotiI18 n the next do.y . I took the taxi baok to

S where I was put up tor night. On Friday 13th. I oontactod

T and asked him to put roo in oontaot with U 0.8 800n as possible .

T would a leo look out for a plaoo tor me to live where I could

use JIij" set .

I tried out IllY SQts the same day and they turned out to

work well . I could not put up an eariel and dId not try to

t o oontact the U. K.

On Sat1.U-day 14th, I moved t o V where T bad found a conta ot

17. Contaot with the U. K. wae tlohleved Boon e.1'terwarda by

means 01' the rolish Dot . I round the J.hrk III and ULrk V Bots

too b ie nnG. hid them 8WQY in the 1)16.00 whore T lived . 1be

pl ace V turned out t o bo excellent for 'ff . T. conditione (lnd I

f'requontly Bot roport & QSA 3- 4 . I had oontaot daily trom

herQ and Bont In1"o

ob3a~'Vntlono •

I stayed thero tor ~ for-tnlcht and durinG t his por1od

I gave U lossons 1n UJrao Oodo and Cyphor and tho handling

of tho Polish :let .

ano day I \iU;> in X to eEto U. I \7cnt by tni about

ono 0' cloak nnd observod TI RPITZ o.nOo ADMIRAL 3CHEER on t he

far 3i .10 of thCJ !'jord. By 3 . 30 ::p . m. t he roceill t of t ho

m33snsa o.boat t~..i.i3 , JUS a oknowlodbod :frOr.l tho O. K.

During my s tay a t V, I oonta.otod and t a lked with Y, Z and 27 (as t he a lllhabet 10 oxhauateOo I heroafter use f1gures

:from 27 on, Z ba1ne the 26th ietter~ to donate l>8raons ) and

I had aleo mo t 2,e . 28 had boon in oontac t with the S. O. E.

agent s Ja and Jb and t Wd n. to send a. ilJJssagG tor

them. I 'promisod to do 00 11' I roally tound that it ViaS

im,parative tor them to have it s ent , but they did not give

me any mcBea oe of -ouch lm,portanoo that 1 :f'.i:tund it noceasary

t o m1.."t m:r station up with 3 . 0 . E. I TinS ,put in contaot wi t h 28 by Y thrJ>uail 29.

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OIl \It! 28th. W tolcI me that m had to leave V booo.use

W 8uttered from 8leepl.esanesa owing to my llNaenoe .

Atter IlV departure :t'rom W f the night between 28th J'eb-

ruary and the 1st roh , I s t aye d i n Yd with Yo. but had

l a te r to move down to 300. in 30'0. I s t ayed t hem until we got

in1"ormut ion t hat 50' h09taB~a l'J01'e to be tkken and that 300.

was llkolY to be t a ken BS ono of thorn. On Sunday , 8th Maroh

I ~oved to 310. in 3-1b Qnd -s t a1'ed there tor two nights until

their nerv~uor.e88 e s so Oby1.QU8 that I t ound it sater to move back to Yd on .::Tuesday l Oth. Ya was "tabn as one o't the

and so was 300. hos t ages/and I at aye d with Yb and Yo (who did no t know my r eal

nome ). I t her e me t 32 .

During this pe riod I had no conta ct 8S my eet wa s broken

down .. Th i s wae my own f ault 8a I oonnected 1t to 150 volta

Dur 1ne; t his time I ba d made out the following Rl an;

It would be impos s ible t o keep oheok on all the import ant

things of mil i t a r y i nteres t going on in t he Tronl1hoim aroa with

one man a nd one et a t i on. Thero would 0.100 be diffioulties in

hiding away more people with N.T. eets 8.8 I , "lith my gOQ.d

conta ots f ound grea t difficulties mysolf. 1 wa s 80 well- lalown

by .peo];lle in Trondhe im that I had t o move ar ound i n the da rknes s

only , and t he hours of darkness got shorter everyday.

I there tor e deoided to try to find soma people who oould

be away from Trondheim for about l5 weekS with a rta aone.bl . ...

pretext . 'they should then go t o t he U .K • • learn \he neoessary

th1n88 ftft re Uion aa eOon aa i n any way poa8 ible I made it

a oondit ion t hat they sliould hnve the aame Bart of s ete 0.8 I

ha d a 8 I know It was impossible for thes e tnen t o oarry Mark III

or },brk V eots around . This pl an was wired t o the U.K. and

a coep ted., and arrahgements wer e JDSde tor the 1I80plo , by 'me

called "nurs e ma l de " , t o be 'p ioked u:p ...

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ltv dlt'flcul ty now Y/oe to rind the l'ight men who by

oombined of'fort could oover all the moa t important aouroes

of military InfoI"llJltion in ~ndol.ng . In ordor t o do thie t o

I dec ided that it would bo necee~ary/hav:e f.j peopla, preferably

from tha t'oll'Owine iI.lstriota:

1. Ent r anoe to the Trondho1mlJf'ord. 2. 1lie town Itselt - a ohannel tor the

infol"mdtion that rm.a oonstantlY oomins: in to 29 .

in oonneotion with A3§:n!h~\Jdr ~~d ~:t~!11: rut~r:.~tlonad part e of' Tr¢ndelag.

for a speoia l lit-II:: =tf~~:dtr~ ~Pn~!;O r:;~~t~:f tho fjor d 15 . One lI!Oll frol!l. Ason whore bie ahips 't'1ero

moored.

!!!...l: I oontc.c t ed N l'lho had n oont ao t 340. at 340 where

34b lived. I aaked it there was anyboOT a t 340 who oould

t ake a t rip to the U. K. with the montioned purpose . Atter

various dUf'lcultloe it mtG decided t hat 34b should do tho

~: I oontacted T about t h is and also 28 and 29 .

Various DUecosttona wore made and among othere 1 came acrosa

35a who lived in 35b. He TIas tram 350 and had been in the

Polioe . He had aome eood sketohes and intornation tram 350

but t:afl no t wlllins to t ake the mentione d job . He ment ioned

to me 36a but I :found 1t boot t o oont act h1m through Yb .

3Ga \7as. al't er ono day ' s conaideration. will i ng t o go i n order

t o oarry out the job ment ioned in 2 .

~ 'lbrough 33a ' I was put 1n oont o.c t wi th 370. who

lived 1n 37b. It t urned out t hat the IOIin who dealt with the

inf'orIEt ion was 38a who lived in 38b . 37ft and 388 together

ne..de the suge-astion that 380 or 3Bd should 0 to the U. K ••

but naUhar o~ t he se wero able t o go at t hat time . I t ound

t hat 3Sb \ms a 6004 ,Pl nce . for t ranamise10n and from t hen on

I used this place to .send from. No detinUe decision was

taken as t o who should go tor job number 3 .

~: Through T. -1 Oontttcted 408 and so met 398 who

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was l iving in 390. I alao contacted 39b through him.

They would both 6'0 t ogether to oarry out job No : 4 .

~: I had several dLfficul ties in providing a man

for th1 3 job . Through 4Oa. I contaoted 400 but he would not

oonsider taklne a job like this. The following day. 408

and T wero t olton aa hoetllfl83 , but through 41a . I m na-Sed

t o keep oontaot with 398 and 400 . No definite solution as

t o 'mo should take the j ob no : 5 ./ao f'ound .

On Friday. 13t h Ue.roh. I made arrangements to get

emp l oyment aa an InsurfUlce agent in the tirm 418 , the

manager ot whioh. 41b , was 0. paraonsl friend of Ye . The

8&10 day I wes invited to 278 \'Jlo live in 27b and I there

loarned about how 42(1. had oaught 430. .. hen the 43b CBse was

on apo. He a1eo t old IfIC about the

ol'[,snlsatlon of tho Castallo. de t ails of whioh flel'S sent t o

the U.K. with the "nurs e maid ll expodition that arriv ed horo

on the 16th April. I oontaoted N and GOt lists ot: U- boat e

and other ships that had been in dook reoently . The list

\"l8S dispatohed by the "nurse maid" expedition.

The same day I 13th Maroh. I oontaoted 33a by ~honing

hlm a t 33b. He wae quite reliable and \7aa working in 8

Radio laboratory so I thought he mi ght be able to hel ll me .

He took II\Y' valve s tor tes ting. He told 100 about another

group who were working in the Trondheim area and want ed to

put me in t ouoh with the leaders ot this sroup, but I

deoided to wait until the s ituation wae 01 81' .

Le.t e r I oal led on 338 again and '0'10 mended t he set.

It turned out th.D.t . due to too high tOnfl ion 1"rom tho

main linoo , tho eleotrolytio condenser was broken. The

_____ .J'vnJ.~v'!!.:>!.~l'l'ere alright. We turned out ~me half" or the e l eo t r o-


nay, W8 made t he ae t work - det a ils in s:peoi lll teohnicnl.

report. The sol der ina etc. wee oarr i ed out by nsans ot a

0 00.1 1'ire and a bi e sorew drivor as a soldering i r on .

I tried t o oontact the U. K. as Boon a s the Bet vms

mondcd. but \' !thout lI'uooeaa. This V/6D trom a p laoe , 330 .

where the W. T. oonditions should be excellent . I tried alJnin

from 270 . a l s o without suocess. The atmospherio oonditione

at that time VJere very bad . I then tried 1"rom Ud ' s flat in

Uo and aohieved oontact atter a per iod of about a fortnight

without oontaot. At t oot time I had go t Borne very important

informat i on trom N. The souroe ot t his intormation wao 34b

who had pa3sed it t hrough 346 t o N. I oontacted 3 48 about

the a1'oremontioned job No:l , a nd ho put me ll¥touch \'lith 34b .

with 38a . I 1'ound this man extremely useful and !'rom now

on I usod his 1'16t at 3Sb to transmit from. terken I Dchedule

waa started and I now kept daily contaot on both Dchedulea.

I also reooived broadcas t messace s froD the U.K. in the place

Yd where I livod, and th1s system worked extremely woll.

After two unouccoaetul attempts . the "nurse m1d"

expedition a t l as t got o,Viay .

For ueveral reaBone. I dec ided t o t ry t o GO to Oslo .

1 . To f ind out i f t her e wus a ny pos.Jib1l1t y 01' getting a rw ot the 43b peoplo out of prison. or 11' nnyth1ns oou~d be done to h alp the •

2 . I would oont a ot 44 a.nd t ry t o hol p h im.

3 . I would t ry to orsnn1oe a "nurse mai d" expedition :from the southem area .


Repor t on tho Oslo Trip .

During my stay I 1 had J:I;l.de enquiries about the

poss ibilities of gett1ns to Oslo. The oivUian train service

\1as . during my etay.ln NOr\'IQy , ,pa rtly quite stO.pllod and

partly under the direo t control of the Gol"lllL\D. authoritios .

The beet way o~ eet tine to Os l o thorefore soomed t o be

by oar . 278 made enquiries f or roo throueh 4U'for ont souroes

and a t lent he tEnseed t o fil: transpo r t fo r me through 27b

who had a l orry ll lyinB betwe en 'I'l.~ondhe 1m and Osl o with things

f or tho firm 270 . The driver oB t his lorry , 274. wos a vory

good rnrut .

We Bet off f r om Trondhoim /,In the 9th April. The roads

and weather ""ere bad but \Ve drove a lternately . The l orry

W88 a Gel'Jllfln BUS eeneratol' t ype . .A1:ter cont i nuous driving

tho

On the way VIC me t Ilo-,'oru! f ormations or tho Gorman arnu

and Air Force . On tile morning of tho l CJ th I special ly

remember thC.t vIe root many on their wny north bet\leen

Dombaa a a nd us I a .

Infant ry: About fi bat talion, marohing north near Jesahe1m. It aeeme d that a oertain number of cycliat e were attaohed to e a oh oOMj)any . I ahould eat1me.te the nwnber to be a bout 20 men. One offioer "as r i d ing in :front of tho oolumn and one N. e . O. in the rear . Thoy had a tow horse-driven vans wi t h them _. no further de t ails .

Oth()r -:f . II. Units : A oolumn O l~ fi.b out 20 ... 30 truoks and lorries tmr ked with a yellow mrk on the left front mudsuard , a nd t ho w. n. w~s , a s far 8S loan· remember . put undernoath thia sign. DJo south at Jes sheim, we me t a ool umn of t ruoks and some :peouliar looltinB vehioles whioh

. might have been Car&1.Il.g88 "for s earchl ights or A.A. guns . 1h.,.. .ere driven as tra ilers aft er exoeptionally heavy truoks . r th i nk thero \7oro about a at them. Further deta ils are no t remembered .

At a petrol sta tion at 270 whor e.:wt stoppe d to ge t oil. we Vlere t ol d tha t tho previ ous day . a oo l umn of about 26 vena IlIlrke4 with t he Red CroDs had 'passed northwards . 'lbey had stopped at the petrol s t at ion to 6s k t he my and the attsndant eaid t hat the vans oonta i ned tully armed men. '!hey a l so t ol d that a p i g oonvoy lu:tdreoently roa.ohed Oslo and tha t l arge partieo of Cerman t'orooe were on t heir way by ro_ad north _ _ *"" .. _._ .>--o.-._~

Militærhistorisk Samling - Gausdal1I08T {GltN heavily' laden while several going south were mostly empty .

On a rrival in 0(110 I did not quito know what to do .

I t heret'ore ./ent to Jerbano t orvot whero I go t a t axi. I t ried

t o set through on the t elephone to 448 but 414 no t ge t any reply . I then went t o bis house in 44b , but heo i ta t od beroI'O

I "ent up tind telephoDa4 :from a shop on the corne r . A VOiO D

unknown to me answered the t el ephone and I just lett D. lID 8ssge

that 458 had phonod h1m. I did not a t tha t t 11ll8 know that

.1""' 448 had been arres t ed by t he Gest apo on the 5 t h l.Br oh and had

beon in Vollan prison in Trondhe1m milo I wee walking pascod

out aide .

I then called on 468. but he WBS not at home and nobo~

answered t he door bell. He was arrested on his return :rr_o;;;m __ .... ~

4Gb threo days lator. After this I tried to phone 47 but

got no reply. I a1eo phoned 460 and asked f'or 4fib who was

not there . At last I found 450 . 45d aIlBwored the t el ephono

and sa1d t hat 450 would be baok soon. As t he t ax1 driver

seemed to be beoomiI18 impatient , I wont to 45e where I wao

well reoe1ved by 45d. Aft er having had a nioe dinner , r

aga1n phoned 4fib at 4fir and had an apparent ly very innooent

oonversnt1on with 4fib Who aft er 8. short while oruoo t o 45e

where fur t her arrangoment B were made . The same evening I want

to 45e where 4fib was alone and s t ayed there t ho :folloVlin8 days .

I oontaot ed 47a about t ho "nuree maid" peo,Pl e and I

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On i;he 14th Al)rll. I BEl t oft for 'i'rondho1J:;l \71th the

same l orry (1.0 before. The road oonditions woro warBe t han

before. Sone milos south of Lillohamner the lor ry broko

dOVID and we juot nanngod t o cot it to L1l1ehanr.ler for ropair .

I had to regle ter at t ho no t e l Horee t L1l1ohlmJJer for tho

n1l!ht .

On tho 15th \'fEl reaohed Trondholm slightly before .r.:I.1dnlght , a fter a 8 tre~uous journey dUl'1ng llb lch we Bot stuck in the ItRJ.4

several tiDes bot\'18on Dombnse and Opdal. German vehicleo had

d1frlcult18~ in cr o8e1.ng the mountains .

Reoults of the 0810 Trip.

1:c 1 : To rind out 11' there was an;y poaelblli ty of gotting ii'iiY""ot the 43b peo.?le oilt 01" pricon , or it anything could be dono t o help thor.J.~

!'ror.t !'7'a 'I n ed that the onse of the 43b :paOllla wne

still not conoluded. and aeveral people had boon in touoh

with their dofonding C0Wl801 , v.ho di4 not Qonsider t he

situation h opolofJs . '!he 43b people had told the Gestapo

tlUlt I woe t o blame tor every thill8 oonoernillB the 43b . and

t hat I hLld been the leader ot this group , they had only

carried out rIW ordara and they did not know tlUoh apart :trom

t his . I d i d not eat in t cuoh with any of 440 ' 0 oontno t s

through whom I hoped to be abl o t o do oomet hina: for them.

L\Y aohievO.ill3ntG in this were there1'ore vory s~ll .

B!L!: I would oonta ot 44 and try to hltlp him, As 448 hod 1'led t o Sweden at'ter hav! ot ou t or t he

pri on, 1 tound i t t oo doneerous t o try t o ge t in t ouoh

with his old contaot s. I tried t o .1nd out about this trom

468. and 47 but did not suoceed .


Ro 3 : I would t ry t o or ganise slthurae ma id" expedition from ~8outh8rn area,

I conta oted 498 with whom, on earlier 0000.810n8 . I had

oollabore.t~d very olosely. He woe a t t hat t ime i n urgent

need ot cpnt aot with the U. K. for t wo roacene : (a ) he Ttanted

0. cont a ct f or the or Gan i sat iOn 4343 and ( b ) be aBuos of' h 1s

pos ition in t h is or ganisa t ion he oons t ant ly r e oe i ved

intol'J'/lD.t i on of erent int er es t and (10 wonted a ohannel throtl8h

,:/Uiah he could pUSS i t on .

I made i t olear t o h im that I could help hill with (b 1,

bu t us f'or ( a 1, I wae not in 8 poo l t ion t o do any t hing about

it .

He \6..0 a loo ( 0 ) in 0. poo l t l on t o blow about several

t olegraphl s t s and r adio t echnicians.

Vie ma.de t he f'ollowi na arrangeIOOnta: (I here r efer to

• Y' 1 942

(a ) He should pr ovide a t e legraphist f or an important

t aak in Northern Norway.

(b) He shoul d t ry t o find n llIUl who oould Co to the

U. K. f or tho neoessary training and laUr ooul d t a ke up work

i n or n ea r the Dr¢bakaund .. the intuntion ,mc to oheok

Oal ofjord shipp ine.

( 0 ) He Mould provide a man to !lus o on the i nfo rmation

he go t h imself. '!'hiu intorLlflt ion oliould be p8.3lle d to the

t elee;raph1s t either dtieotly or. :pr otfl rably. throUSh one

oonneot 1118 link.

(d) Ho s houl d :provido ano the r man r or Q epa oial job

in Oslo. '!'his \iB B t o oarry out tho 10.n known as "Ursa" _

QQcurat. in1'ormntion or ral1mty t raff io allover Norway .

1heBo :four poople shoul d a ll be t ra i ned aocordil18 to

the "nurse m id" prinoipl e . Th i s meant t hat t hey oheuld be

p ioked out ror a spec i a l t ask . an alibi r or the ir o.bcenoe would

be provided, they should Bet a short traln1n8 \vith 8 view to

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be e iven a 01l901a1 flash code covering the spoolal termB of

their reeJ)eotive jobs . thua outt1D& the length ot messages

to the min RevleloD in t he oon:monly u:.ed W. T. sohedule

would 0.130 bo 1.m,pOl'tant t o them for tho ir seouri ty .

498 lIroI:lieed to do hia bOBt anel I would ~lve him 'further

meOSc.ee:J in a.bout ll. tortnl zJlt IS l, imG .

4. . Other R.eul t o of tl1e OGlo trip;

(a) I arra.ll88d 0. oover address tor sending letters into

UOI-Nfty .

(b) I oont acted 400 and (Jonii r.:aed that he waa '.iilline to

t ake over Bome work f or us .

(0) I r .. nmd out tha t 500. was 8Lllll(lyed in a b1l; firm l50b.

rto 110.0 helped rna before aud is vtfnoy 8x'p.ri~no8d and \71111l16

to do the ~ol·k .

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a(.'il inot mr fanlly und that they ware well . ltr father was

Btill in :pr100D and hie proporty 1s oontluoot ed . The exaot

rOBson 1'01' t his 1s still not clear.

i\l.o problOMB lef't t o Do lvo before I left UOrrnly were

now t o try to o.rraneo II system f or send inc L1eElOnCes :from the

entranca of Trondheimafjor d ; t o eive instructions and Dflke

nrrangoments 0 that the work should ountinue lIEltisfaotor1;ly

after my dellElrture. un t o t i nd D:G'" \:uy ou t to v'\'1edon.

I achieved oontaot with t he U. K. acam nnd intormed them

01' ~ intentions . As it Vnl3 i.n:wero.tive to eat a station at

the entrance t o the fjord.. £Uld 8.0 there ooaned to 'be no othor

way out , I went by boat to 340 . '!'hie '7ao a proteo ted nrea.

but tho dlf:flcultiea invol ved Vlore overoomo , and the station

Has lH.it up in the fortification area . A special flBsh 004e

. r.as I!ede t o covo!" the most i.m.1o rtant torma. The reoeiver ot

the set did no t work and only one way contaot could therefore be used. I oonsidered this t o be a good thing ns I think

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tha t mos t etations are detected beoause of t he ir two-way

oontaot \71t h the central et ation in the U. K. 'tho operator

was not a good telegraphist and oould only aend figures .

He oould therefore only US6 the glsah oode. We tried out the

transmiss ion and tried t o send a message beraro r lo1't the

tollowi.ne morning. I waa . by the kindness of t he Otflcer-

in- Charge , taken ba ok by 8 epeoial GeI'lOO.ll boat and landed at

the protected harbour a rea.

I t here s aw ombarkation of armed troops wearing 111'8-

jaokets - details g iven in an earlior report .

As for the instruotions and further plans for the work

after nw departure . the fo llow1ne arranee:meuts Ylere made:

Ud (T was a t tha t time in a ooncentration camp but has Bince

then been le t out). /J. oover addrees in Trondheim and a

route to Sweden tor passing intonmtion and messages as

arranged through 370 and also through 38a via 32 and 32b .

( 32b was aLlong the !leople who woro reoently shot in Trondho1m

and 32 has fled to Sweden. I do not know whether a now

r route hils boen arrllneed t o replace this . )

(.!?.l 30a vms to eo t o Os lo and cont ac t 49 and g ive him money and instruotions for sending the "nurse ma ids" that

49 would probably have found by- tha t time . He could abo

cont a ct 38g and try t o find a "nurse maid" who could

maintain a d irect contact between himse l f and tho U. K. i1"

he found it import ant . (It TIll:! later learned that thes e

arrWl88ments and instructions were carried out ent irely

aooord i ng t o Dlan and only a eeries of unluoky coincidenoes

a ccounted for the tao t that they did no t rcaoh t he U. K. as

planned . '!he man who was to have an import ant t ask in

Narvik was elBo sont anA inst ruo ted acoording t o arraDgeaonts . )

Militærhistorisk Samling - Gausdal(It was later loarned t hat he returned t o Os l o after several

a ttempts t o oontaot the U. K. from Narvik with the 1lflrk III

set called Larken I) .

llost ot m:I contaots were given suffioient money (Norwegian

and SvtedlDh ) to be able to onrry out t he ir instruotions and,

l1' necese;ary , get into SWeden - an approx1Ioo.to aooount of the

money used is given op. a Goparate shoe t .

( .2, ) Through 358 I go t a f also "Grenseaonepaos"o.nd pre:pared

for mr departure ovor 510. - b - a and d. The route was given t o me by 37a who had go t dIffere n t th1n8B :from the Legation

in 'Stockholm via this r oute .

On ttle morning of' tho 28th , I left Trondholm on a

north-going train for 5Ia . '1b.e last niGht I was in Trondbe1m

t here was a big raid by the R. A. F. but I could not find out

that 0»iY 4e.ma&e bad been cloaee On arrival. a~ o.La. I ... oxamined by GOl'mfin mili t ary 'police. Thoy wer e :probably

looking tor pilote who had oome down durlIl8 t ho raid and

were t rying t o esoape into SWeden. As they found that nu

papers were alright , t hey di d not exemlne mo f'urthor .

I oontacted 52 and made out the plan "TnJR" with him.

ne was g iven pass- norda and a cover addreue in SWeden.

On tho 29th , I v/ent some dist unoe by bus and then further

over the mount ains by s ledge and arrived a t 51b a t about

one 0 ' clock the tollowi118 mornins.

- Db. 1Itr way I had for oompany a NS agant who revealed

tha t he wao sent out t o check possible refugeos t o SWeden.

He 0 om:L'loye as an agricultural advieer in the distriot

bY' the NS authoritieo. iliD name io 53 . I had to let him

underutand that I waa u Gest npo agent t10rkiDg ['or the

S. S. headquartere in Trondhelm and ns I knew the names ot the

Ge st apo in Trondhe1m it was quite eaey to convince him about

thiS. I a lso ahowe d him an illecal Norwegian paper and my

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with the anti-Nazi Norwegians who then would think toot I was

on the ir eide and give r:l8 information . I aleo to l d him about

a fe'" joba I had done for t he Gestapo and eIIU>hasised that

he JDlw t . under no circumstances , pae~ this on as I had

promi£od tho Gestupo to keep it dark. On arrival a t 51e

t herefore , 53 l ed me past the Ges t apo llolioe and t ol d them

t hat I was all ri8ht .

On t he B8IllO lJAy-C:-r -we-nt-t-o 54 by lorry and inoident ally

diaoovered an exoellent poss i bI lity for t app1n& t he German

t el ephone line to t heir border wa toh-post s _ detai l s given

in speoial re'port.

! oroBsed tho border on the mornlns of the 1s t • y . and

arrived a t 51d 1n ~'V/eden at about 4 olclock. I reported

a t onoe t o the pol loe ae there were no ,po8ulbl11U.e ... or

Be t ting on on my O\'7D. . I arrive d a t ¢reryd all t he 4th l~y

and in Stookholm t he fol l owine morning where I r eported a t

onoe t o t he Legation. I l eft St ookholm on the 8t h Uly and

arrived in the U. K. on Saturday 9th a t 04 . 00 hours and waB

in London a t 18 . 35 hours .

A SUrvey of Results.

1. Reaohed Tl~ondhe1m. aohieved oontaot and Bent informat ion.

2 . St ation plaoed at the entranoe of Trondhelmafjord wi t h spe01al flash codo .

3 . "Nurse mald" exped1tion for oontinuat i on of work in tho Trondelag area or sanlsed and sent orf.

4 . Uide arraneernents tor another "nuree ma.ld" expedition trom Oalo and "ror a DllUl to t ake Lerken I t o Narvi k .

5 . Irul t ruo t 1ono g1von to \"1orklng informEltlon- groups about how to oolleot and send inf'ormntlon.

6 . _ttrangemont s made f'or oonnoo t ion t hrough Sweden and a number of lnstruotiona given t o n:v oont aots aa to how to proceed with t he work.

These arrangement s . beoause of variOUS oircumstanoes .

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