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CASSIA Spy Ring, Pt. 2/2: The Best Laid Plans | Historical | WW2

True Spies: Espionage | Investigation | Crime | Murder | Detective | Politics

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The Cloud Emission and the Austrians

The British Special Operations Executive, or SOE, recognized that Austria was in a bad position to resist fascism within the Reich. By 1943, the SOE launched what it called the Cloud Emission, providing resistance factions with weapons and other forms of support. Gustav Rodega, a close friend of Messner's and an employee of Zempritt, was looking to forge an alliance between the Cassia Spiring and the Allied Powers. Within Istanbul, he had a unique window into the industrial decision-making going on within the Third Reich.

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