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Julius Berthold Schulze-Holthus (see Figure 10.1) was born in Wetzlar on 31 October 1894 into an upper middle-class Prussian family. After the war, Schulze-Holthus seems to have preferred the first name Bernhard(t), which has led to some confusion in the records and literature. Also, Schulze-Holthus’s American captors identified him variously as Bernhard and, for some inexplicable reason, as Bertram.2 This greatly irritated George Wickens, who had handled some of Schulze-Holthus’s interrogations in Tehran and who wrote: ‘It seems incredible that, having Schulze on their hands for as long as they admit, they could not achieve accuracy at least in the matter of his name!’3 Wickens also pointed to an ‘incomprehensible’ attempt by the Americans to give Schulze-Holthus a Baltic background, recording his birthplace as Danzig.4
A man has to be born for the intelligence service. (Berthold Schulze-Holthus)1
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Franz Seubert, ‘Frührot in Iran: Aussergewöhnlicher Einsatz eines Abwehroffiziers im II. Weltkrieg,’ Die Nachhut: Informationsorgan für Angehörige der ehemaligen militärischen Abwehr 5 (15 June 1968): 2, MSG 3/667, BArch-MArch.
For more about MAGPIE, Fourcade, and the ALLIANCE network see Marie-Madeleine Fourcade, Noah’s Ark (New York: Dutton, 1974), 155 passim;
Keith Jeffery, The Secret History of MI6 (New York: Penguin, 2010), 481–2, 526–9, who also mentions the exchange without naming Schulze-Holthus;
and MAGPIE’s own memoir: Ferdinand Edouard Rodriguez, L’escalier de fer, with Robert Hervet (Paris: Editions France Empire, 1958).
See Arnold M. Silver, ‘Questions, Questions, Questions: Memories of Oberursel,’ Intelligence and National Security 8, no. 2 (1993): 199–213. The Turkul records are at KV 2/1591–1593, TNA.
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O’Sullivan, A. (2014). SABA. In: Nazi Secret Warfare in Occupied Persia (Iran). Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137427915_11
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