| British-Hungarian Underground in Word War II British Intelligence in Hungary The group Karoly Schandl operated in was led by his best friend Gabor Haraszty, a.k.a British agent ALBERT, head agent of SIS in Budapest. The group of friends gathered military intelligence for the Allies concerning airfields, oil refineries, targets, etc, in addition to helping allied prisoners-of-war, downed airmen escape (via the Tito partisans), and providing false documents for those who needed to escape Nazi persecution. Activities were coordinated with the Dutch underground in Hungary. The brave men of the network included Gabor Haraszty (Haraszti), Karoly Schandl, Reginald Barratt and Tibor/Louis Klement(Clement) on the British side, and Edward Van Hootegem, Gerrit Van der Waals, as well as other officers on the Dutch side. At a secret meeting arranged by Dorothy Lengyel, Gabor Haraszty was put in charge of the mysterious Swedish Gold. Haraszty's contacts were numerous and varied from Colonel Charles Telfer Howie and high ranking Hungarian politicians to the Polish Underground and Palestinian Jewish parachutists, including Reuven Dafni, Peretz (Perez) Goldstein, Hannah Senesh, Yoel (Joel) Palgi ... SOURCES: The London-Budapest Game (2007) Swedish Gold (2011) |
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