Scrambled Lives
One job that Dicky had expected to do on his return from the Home Office was to ring Group; however, some of his fading time was saved as that necessity had disappeared. On his desk was Archie"s sealed buff dossier and marked Directors Eyes Only. He opened it and began to read:
GroupDirectors Eyes Only1) The operational names of Horace and Butler have been used twice before, but separately. Neither had the appendage of Sir added. We do not believe that to be a simple accident or oversight. The first time that name cropped up was in 1940. Butler was the name given to the transportation of the Duke of Windsor from Portugal to the Bahamas. It saw life as a War Department program after Group, not I of course, uncovered a Nazi plot to kidnap the ex-King and take him to Spain.
