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Blue Ring Assassins, Authentic information book 1 by Stephen Cohen
Sunday, April 5, 2020
Rated "PG13" by the Author.
This page provides you with the WWII authentic information on which my book Blue Ring Assassins in based on.
Brothel Background
During the second world war, the Nazis decided to re-open a brothel and use the prostitutes as spies. They were ordered to seduce secrets out of foreigners and catch out disloyal Germans.
The brothel started in 1939, was called Salon Kitty and was owned by Katherine Zammit AKA Kitty Schimdt.
Walter Schellenberg, a Nazi intelligence officer working for the Sicherheit'sdienst (SD), and Reinhard Heydrich gave Kitty an ultimatum: you and your girls work for us, or you’re going to the concentration camps.
So, Kitty was ordered to take on 20 extra girls produced by the Nazis, place listening devices in all areas and allocate a listening room in her establishment.
Once all this was agreed, Schellenberg and other SS officers started arresting prostitutes from all over Berlin. They sorted them into the most beautiful ones to train and recruit for the brothel.
The file sent out by Schellenberg to all Nazi administration officers stated that they were looking for beautiful, intelligent, multilinguistic young females who were man crazy.
They were trained by the Nazis to recognise high ranking military uniforms, high ranking Nazi party officials and foreign diplomats, who they would then relax with plenty of alcohol, sleep with, and extract as much information out of them as possible.
During a British air attack the salon was destroyed. Schmidt was allowed to re-open in another location, but the Nazi operation was abandoned due to a lack of credible intelligence.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salon_Kitty
The Blue Ring Octopus (Hapalochlaena Lunulata)
These marine animals are found in the tide pools and coral reefs in the Pacific and Indian oceans, from Japan to Australia.
Small in size and relatively docile unless provoked, they are highly dangerous to humans due to their powerful venom (Neurotoxin Tetrodotoxin).
Each animal has enough venom to kill 26 adult humans, with NO antivenom available.
The venom causes heart and respiratory failure, total paralysis and blindness, and can kill in minutes. Death generally results from paralysis of the diaphragm.
During envenomation the subject is still fully aware of their surroundings but unable to move or talk, thus unable to raise the alarm for help.
SOE (Special Operations Executive)
Prime Minister Winston Churchill's secret army or “Baker Street Irregulars,” as they became known.
The SOE had several training grounds around the British Isles, as well as in other countries.
Camp X, joint British/Canadian training ground during WWII, Camp X was the unofficial name of the secret Special Training School No. 103, a Second World War British paramilitary installation for training covert agents in the methods required for success in clandestine operations
SOE Headquarters were at 64 Baker Street in London.
All agents, regardless of gender, were trained in all aspects of espionage. The SOE had over 400 female agents working behind enemy lines. The use of female agents was considered a necessary factor as they could move around far more easily than men.
Trainees at the camps learned sabotage techniques, subversion, intelligence gathering, lock picking, explosives training, radio communications, encode/decode, recruiting techniques for partisans, the art of silent killing and unarmed combat." Communication training, including Morse code, was also provided.
Extensive training in resisting interrogation and how to evade capture underscored the gravity of their missions. The SOE operations and research section had to develop some unique devices for their agents. They invented hidden weapons in everyday items such as pens, hang bags, umbrellas and navigation devices in such things like lipstick to mention just a few.
Their main purpose was to cause as much chaos behind enemy lines as possible as well as coordinate, inspire, control, and assist nationals of oppressed countries.
The use of methamphetamine, also known as crystal meth, was particularly prevalent: A pill form of the drug, Pervitin, was distributed by the millions to Wehrmacht troops, the effect of the drug would make a person capable of staying awake longer, almost able to ignore injury within realistic parameters as well as make them feel stronger.
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Brothel Background
