Declare
“—Omar Khayyám, The Rubáiyát, Edward J. FitzGerald translation On the last day of 1941 Centre sent orders that both Hale and Elena were to report in person to Moscow immediately, and that the ETC network was to be retired.
Radio contact with Moscow Centre had been reestablished for a month by that time, and right away Elena had been ordered to take over half of the radio duties, while at the same time resuming her job of meeting the furtive couriers and sources. And at the end it was Elena who d...eciphered the summons order—probably only moments before the Gestapo broke down the front door of the latest of the Rive Gauche pensions in which she and Hale had been renting rooms.
Moscow Centre had not come back on the air until November 29. During the two weeks preceding that, Elena had got work as a typist at the Simex offices in the Lido building on the Champs-Élysées, while Hale had developed a rudimentary network among the unemployed and alcoholic clochards.
Neither of them had accomplished much in that interlude.MoreLess
Radio contact with Moscow Centre had been reestablished for a month by that time, and right away Elena had been ordered to take over half of the radio duties, while at the same time resuming her job of meeting the furtive couriers and sources. And at the end it was Elena who d...eciphered the summons order—probably only moments before the Gestapo broke down the front door of the latest of the Rive Gauche pensions in which she and Hale had been renting rooms.
Moscow Centre had not come back on the air until November 29. During the two weeks preceding that, Elena had got work as a typist at the Simex offices in the Lido building on the Champs-Élysées, while Hale had developed a rudimentary network among the unemployed and alcoholic clochards.
Neither of them had accomplished much in that interlude.MoreLess
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