In early July 1942, Colonel George Hill, the representative of Britain's Special Operations Executive (SOE) in Moscow, informed Major Harold Seddon, the Head of SOE's Russian Section in London, that the NKVD, the Soviet Ministry of the Interior, had two Pickaxe agents destined for Italy. They were being prepared for the mission and one of them was unable to be parachuted. Who was George Hill? What was the Special Operations Executive? What was Hill...
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