The Secret Ministry Of Ag. & Fish - Plot & Excerpts
& Fish Chapter 13 The refusal of MI6, and others, to cooperate with, or even to recognize the existence of, SOE resulted in lives being lost unnecessarily, since operations under the auspices of SOE were often duplicated, causing mayhem and confusion. A classic example of this is the Frankton affair, the story of the ‘Cockleshell Heroes’, an incredible feat, orchestrated down to the last detail by Major ‘Blondie’ Hasler of the Royal Marines. It involved more than six months’ secret, intensive training, in which twelve marines took part, and only four survived. It was a tremendously daring and courageous venture, where loss of life could so easily have been avoided had the SOE agents planning the same operation scheduled for the following night, but to be carried out from inside the port of Bordeaux, been involved, or even been informed of the canoe intervention planned to take place from the estuary, which had been authorized by ‘Combined Ops’. On Remembrance Day 1942, the submarine Tuna slid down the Clyde, carrying with its crew six canoes and twelve Royal Marines commandos.
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