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IN CONNECTION
WITH THE SUSSEX PLAN
We can read the
following preface in the book written by Colonel REMY:
Memories of a secret free French agent
You can read the following
preface written by Colonel Francis Pickens Miller of OSS, a U.S.
officials Sussex:
Colonel Francis
Pickens Miller
Courtesy of the George
C. Marshall Research Library, Lexington, Virginia
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"The occasion which caused the meeting of Rémy, with the British
officer who signed the second volume of his memories with the
pseudonym of Wagon, and with American officer who I was, gave a
splendid example of co-operation between the services of three
different countries with a common aim.
Each representative played his distinctive and suitable
share in the development of the operations. But they were French who
brought to these plans the elements of realization.
As regards intelligence activity, the agent of
execution is the deciding factor:
The plans can be perfect, the equipment without defect,
time and the chance can line up your side, but it is the agent of
execution, and this agent, alone which counts ultimately for the
success.
The supreme quality of this agent lies in its character.
The words are missing to me when I think of qualities
of the women and the men, young people and the girls who left on
mission for our common account.
Their patriotism was the purest essence, and the
courage of which they made proof will not ever be exceeded by the
courage of any man.
The safest test of the character of an individual
appears under torture.
However in this operation that we had to direct, none
the tortured agents never delivered the name of his/her comrades.
Not one!
In this rough and glorious behaviour of these men and
these women, who went until the supreme sacrifice without never
failing, the hope lies which one can place in the future of France
of which I do not hesitate to say, me citizen of the United States
of America, which it is our future with all ".
Colonel Francis Pickens Miller
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