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- Title
Raadiomangud Eestis Teise maailmasoja ajal ja jarel VIII.
- Authors
Pihlau, Jaak
- Abstract
The first suspicions arose in the latter half of 1953 in the course of Operation Jungle, the objective of which was supposed to be to send British agents to the occupied Baltic countries, when intelligence agents sent across the border inexplicably began to disappear and radio transmissions received from Organisation Robert stationed there became ever more contradictory. The suspicions of MI-6 were confirmed beyond doubt when a water sample taken from the Iset River in the Urals sent by agent List arrived at London headquarters. According to the expert analysis of British radio-chemists, the sample could not have been genuine in any case due to its very high radioactivity. At that point, the British secret service decided to terminate all missions to the Courland coast made by speedboat and to continue making them only to Saaremaa on the Estonian coast since they continued to believe that the KGB had not yet managed to infiltrate the Estonian resistance movement. The first voyage to Saaremaa with its destination near the village of Panga took place on the night before 28 October 1954, whereas British agent Harri was dropped off on shore and the alleged representative of the Forest Brothers code named Juhan (also known as Sulg or Captain Luks) was taken onboard. Juhan was actually Soviet counterintelligence agent Juhan Truupold. According to another version, he was airman Captain Evald H. Laasi. After arriving in Estonia, agent Harri was initially taken to a secret hideout in Viljandi County and shortly thereafter he was arrested near Tallinnin Paaskula.Apoisonous solution named Neptun was mixed with vodka and used to drug him. His real name Raimund Jantra was found out in the course of interrogation. The KGB recruited him as a double agent and after a secret agreement was arrived at with the heads of British intelligence, he was sent back to England by way of the Gulf of Finland. The second Saaremaa operation took place in the same location on the night of 21 April 1955 when Juhan was brought back to Estonia and 2 agents were taken on board of the speedboat: Albert, who his superiors decided to send back to England after spending two years in Estonia, and yet another KGB officer, who is referred to in archival sources by the code name Leo and also under the name Piilu. At almost the same time (July 1955), KGB agent code named Talu (Boris Nelk) set out on his journey to the West across the Gulf of Finland. He had served in the German Army as a non-commissioned officer in a platoon under the command of A. Rebane. He had with him a letter of recommendation written by KGB agent Obnovljonnyi (G. Meri), who had also worked in the Estonian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, addressed to the Estonian Consul in the USA Joh. Kaiv. After a brief interrogation in London, both Talu and Albert confessed that they had been sent by the Soviet security organs and that Soviet counter- intelligence was actually controlling the radio game in progress. Thus Operation Jungle had actually entered its final phase, in the course of which the agents of both sides were successfully sent back to their respective homelands in accordance with the agreement arrived at (Albert and Harri to the Eng- lish; Juhan, Piilu and Talu to the KGB).
- Subjects
SAAREMAA Island (Estonia); RADIO in espionage; GREAT Britain. MI6; ESTONIAN history, 1940-1991; SOVIET Union. Komitet gosudarstvennoi bezopasnosti; INTELLIGENCE service; SPIES; HISTORY
- Publication
Tuna, 2010, Issue 3, p101
- ISSN
1406-4030
- Publication type
Article