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TO: F/DM                                                                                                                                               19-7-1944

FROM: D/CE.G.1                                                                                                                                 DCEG1/7223

                                   Interview with Mrs. UNTERNAHER the mother of Mrs. BEEKMAN

This woman was interviewed by D/CE.G.1 on 18th July, F/ADM having had to leave before the interview started.

As had been arranged previously with F/ADM, the fact that Mrs. BEEKMAN was missing was not disclosed. Mrs. UNTERNAHRER said that she had asked for the interview because it was so long since she had had any direct communication with her daughter that she was getting anxious, and wished to insist upon being given some details of her daughter's present condition and activities. I told her that conditions in France since D-Day had been such that communications were very difficult and so strained that messages about the personal welfare of particuler individuals were crowded out: that we had not had any message about Mrs. BEEKMAN during the last week or two, but that this delay was only natural in the circumstances, and did not indicate that anything was wrong.

Mrs. UNTERNAHRER, who is a French woman in a state of considerable agitation, then disclosed that her real anxiety was because when her daughter was parachuted into France last September …[redacted]

I agree with F/Rec's view that Mrs. UNTERNAHRER is an excitable sort of person who should not be told that her daughter is a casualty unless such disclosure is unavoidable. I think in the near future, and recommend therefore that no further good news letters should be sent, and that I interview Mrs. UNTERNAHRER again towards the end of next month and let her know that the continued absence of news must indicate that her daughter became missing in the confusion which occured shortly after D-Day.

Valt hieruit op te maken dat SOE naar de ouders van agenten brieven stuurde waarin vermeld werd dat het goed ging met hun kind, terwijl men eigenlijk geen idee had wat er precies aan de hand was?

Ook haar echtgenoot ontving, terwijl hij in het veld was, een telegram dat zij welliswaar gevangen genomen was, maar dat het goed met haar ging.



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