Speedicut Memoirs

In the last volume of The Speedicut Memoirs,Charles Speedicut relates his involvement, as a member of the SpecialOperations Executive, in many of the highly successful deceptionstrategies masterminded by the cross-dressing Colonel Dudley Clarke,including Operation MINCEMEAT. He also discloses his role in thehigh-profile assassinations of the Protector of Moravia & Bohemia,Reinhard Heydrich, the Vichy French Admiral, Franois Darlan,and the abduction of General Heinrich Kreipe. In the post-war period, Speedicut is principallyconcerned with uncovering Soviet spies in the British Establishmentalthough, along the way, he recounts the true story on whichThe Third Man was based. He also reveals that he was responsible forstealing the Duchess of Windsor's jewels, his pivotal role in theVassall and Profumo scandals, the true identity of the 'headless man'in the notorious Argyll divorce case and the reason whyhis memoirs were written whilst serving timein HM Prison Ford. 'The activities of the Special Operations Executivehave been described as 'ungentlemanly warfare'entirely because of the exploits of Charles Speedicut.'The Rt Hon Sir Winston Churchill