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It Ended in Moscow
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Davec5299
Magistrate
STOP reading ahead Loin'
'Oh no!' screamed the man with the pen.
'You're pre-empting my story again.
Just drink your ale,
And let me write my tale,
Of sexy spy women and men!'
Oh C’mon, you’ve been laying out plot clues since we met her!STOP reading ahead Loin'
Loxuru
Graf von Kreuzigung
"I kicked him from a driving train a few hours ago!"
For once it isn't me!STOP reading ahead Loin'
Loxuru
Graf von Kreuzigung
Still...
Are NKVD agents not trained in martial arts then? These sailors were only four to one NKVD agent. Should have been a piece of cake for Elena Anosova, to inflict a few deadly blows with her bare hands! Clearly, training level at NKVD should be significantly upgraded!
Are NKVD agents not trained in martial arts then? These sailors were only four to one NKVD agent. Should have been a piece of cake for Elena Anosova, to inflict a few deadly blows with her bare hands! Clearly, training level at NKVD should be significantly upgraded!
Epilogue
Barbara Mohr was spirited off to SIS, Section D, Headquarters in London shortly after being debriefed for nearly a week in Stockholm by Swedish General Security Service Chief Anders Hallgren. In London she underwent several additional weeks of exhaustive debriefing before being allowed several months of much needed mental and physical convalescence given her many harrowing experiences. Once fully recovered, she was eventually assigned to a comfortable Section D “desk posting” as a special intelligence assistant to Major Laurence Grand.
After the war, Grand informed her over dinner (a beyond-platonic relationship of sorts had developed between them over time) that she had been commended and he was putting her forward for a medal in recognition of her extraordinary service … possibly the George Cross, along with a posthumous award for Henry. She’d felt deeply honored and later that evening thanked him in a very special way he’d never forget.
Unfortunately, she never was so honored … due to the fact that upon learning of the recommendation a certain English tabloid immediately resurrected and ran photos of her cavorting about nude in a Hamburg park … photos it had published before the war. The Royal Family was aghast and is rumored to have been behind the quashing of the recommendation. Henry Underwood’s posthumous award, on the other hand, went through without objection.
In June of 1943 Joachim Mohr was exfiltrated to Britain in a daring Section D special operation. There he was reunited with his daughter, Barbara, and willingly shared with Laurence Grand everything he knew about the design and production of German V Rockets … intelligence that in turn enabled the Royal Air Force to carry out a massive 596 bomber raid on the secret rocket development site at Peenemünde on the Baltic Sea island of Usedom (Operation Hydra), as well as a comprehensive bombing campaign later on, in cooperation with the Americans, against manufacturing and launch sites in Northern France.
Chief Anders Hallgren successfully led the Swedish General Security Service, predecessor of today’s Swedish Security Service (Säpo), throughout the war years, retiring honorably in 1945.
Swedish General Security Service Agent Sune Ivarsson received an official reprimand for the carelessness of his conduct on the SJ Stockholm-Karlskrona overnight train… carelessness that nearly allowed Russian agent Elena Aleksandrovna Anosova the opportunity she sought to kill Barbara Mohr on the morning of her arrival in Karlskrona. Nevertheless, Ivarsson was allowed to oversee the Russian agent’s month-long interrogation, eventually succeeding in both “breaking” and “turning” the beautiful young Russian woman.
Elena Aleksandrovna Anosova, suffered considerably during her month-long interrogation. Sune Ivarsson and his team of Swedish interrogators, while relative novices at the game, learned quickly enough how to employ effectively both psychological and physical pain. And it wasn’t long before Elena’s resolve began to weaken and she began to surrender valuable bits of information. And, in the end, they were able to “turn her” and eventually put her to work on a series of counter-espionage missions targeting her former masters’ efforts to establish a network of agents in Sweden. In time she fell in love with Ivarsson and he with her, and they eventually married.
NKVD Commissar Sergei Mikhaylovich Popov was put before a firing squad on the orders of Josef Stalin himself for the crimes of having carelessly allowed Barbara Mohr the opportunity to escape her Lubyanka incarceration, failing to prevent her eventual flight to Sweden via the port of Riga, and depriving Stalin himself of the future pleasures of keeping her as his personal dacha sex slave.
Barbara Mohr was spirited off to SIS, Section D, Headquarters in London shortly after being debriefed for nearly a week in Stockholm by Swedish General Security Service Chief Anders Hallgren. In London she underwent several additional weeks of exhaustive debriefing before being allowed several months of much needed mental and physical convalescence given her many harrowing experiences. Once fully recovered, she was eventually assigned to a comfortable Section D “desk posting” as a special intelligence assistant to Major Laurence Grand.
After the war, Grand informed her over dinner (a beyond-platonic relationship of sorts had developed between them over time) that she had been commended and he was putting her forward for a medal in recognition of her extraordinary service … possibly the George Cross, along with a posthumous award for Henry. She’d felt deeply honored and later that evening thanked him in a very special way he’d never forget.
Unfortunately, she never was so honored … due to the fact that upon learning of the recommendation a certain English tabloid immediately resurrected and ran photos of her cavorting about nude in a Hamburg park … photos it had published before the war. The Royal Family was aghast and is rumored to have been behind the quashing of the recommendation. Henry Underwood’s posthumous award, on the other hand, went through without objection.
In June of 1943 Joachim Mohr was exfiltrated to Britain in a daring Section D special operation. There he was reunited with his daughter, Barbara, and willingly shared with Laurence Grand everything he knew about the design and production of German V Rockets … intelligence that in turn enabled the Royal Air Force to carry out a massive 596 bomber raid on the secret rocket development site at Peenemünde on the Baltic Sea island of Usedom (Operation Hydra), as well as a comprehensive bombing campaign later on, in cooperation with the Americans, against manufacturing and launch sites in Northern France.
Chief Anders Hallgren successfully led the Swedish General Security Service, predecessor of today’s Swedish Security Service (Säpo), throughout the war years, retiring honorably in 1945.
Swedish General Security Service Agent Sune Ivarsson received an official reprimand for the carelessness of his conduct on the SJ Stockholm-Karlskrona overnight train… carelessness that nearly allowed Russian agent Elena Aleksandrovna Anosova the opportunity she sought to kill Barbara Mohr on the morning of her arrival in Karlskrona. Nevertheless, Ivarsson was allowed to oversee the Russian agent’s month-long interrogation, eventually succeeding in both “breaking” and “turning” the beautiful young Russian woman.
Elena Aleksandrovna Anosova, suffered considerably during her month-long interrogation. Sune Ivarsson and his team of Swedish interrogators, while relative novices at the game, learned quickly enough how to employ effectively both psychological and physical pain. And it wasn’t long before Elena’s resolve began to weaken and she began to surrender valuable bits of information. And, in the end, they were able to “turn her” and eventually put her to work on a series of counter-espionage missions targeting her former masters’ efforts to establish a network of agents in Sweden. In time she fell in love with Ivarsson and he with her, and they eventually married.
NKVD Commissar Sergei Mikhaylovich Popov was put before a firing squad on the orders of Josef Stalin himself for the crimes of having carelessly allowed Barbara Mohr the opportunity to escape her Lubyanka incarceration, failing to prevent her eventual flight to Sweden via the port of Riga, and depriving Stalin himself of the future pleasures of keeping her as his personal dacha sex slave.
@Barbaria1 and @Fossy - outstanding work you two, another triumph! I thoroughly enjoyed this collaboration and hope we’ll see moore in the future!
Poor old flash Henry, at least he got a posthumous accolade.
And not so for Barb, hung by her own petard by the British Establishment. No reward for honeypot spies apparently!
Poor old flash Henry, at least he got a posthumous accolade.
And not so for Barb, hung by her own petard by the British Establishment. No reward for honeypot spies apparently!
Loxuru
Graf von Kreuzigung
The Crux Chronicle again?
Always stepping on the cake!So, Barb Mohr also missed the opportunity to be awarded the Order of Lenin, for faithfully serving Uncle Joe!
At least one happy ending!
Kathy
Terra Nova Tramp
@Fossy & @Barbaria1 Great writing as usual , you two work well together.
Excellent story! Tree was never good at 'co-writing' stories but you did a great job...
Loxuru
Graf von Kreuzigung
Falling in love with her tormentor! It suddenly occurs to me, this must be an early case of Stockholm Syndrome!
Davec5299
Magistrate
Falling in love with her tormentor! It suddenly occurs to me, this must be an early case of Stockholm Syndrome!
From Wiki:
Stockholm syndrome is a proposed condition or theory that tries to explain why hostages sometimes develop a psychological bond with their captors.[1][2] It is supposed to result from a rather specific set of circumstances, namely the power imbalances contained in hostage-taking, kidnapping, and abusive relationships. Therefore, it is difficult to find a large number of people who experience Stockholm syndrome to conduct studies with any sort of validity or useful sample size. This makes it hard to determine trends in the development and effects of the condition,[3] and in fact it is a "contested illness" due to doubts about the legitimacy of the condition.[4]
Emotional bonds can possibly form between captors and captives, during intimate time together, but these are considered irrational by some in light of the danger or risk endured by the victims. Stockholm syndrome has never been included in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), the standard tool for diagnosis of psychiatric illnesses and disorders in the United States, mainly due to the lack of a consistent body of academic research.[4] The syndrome is rare: according to data from the FBI, about 8% of hostage victims show evidence of Stockholm syndrome.[5]
Stockholm syndrome is paradoxical because the sympathetic sentiments that captives feel towards their captors are the opposite of the fear and disdain which an onlooker might feel towards the captors.
There are four key components that characterize Stockholm syndrome:
- A hostage's development of positive feelings towards the captor
- No previous relationship between hostage and captor
- A refusal by hostages to cooperate with police and other government authorities
- A hostage's belief in the humanity of the captor, ceasing to perceive them as a threat, when the victim holds the same values as the aggressor.[6]
Tragic
Pathbreaking! You learned of it first here on CruxForums!
Loxuru
Graf von Kreuzigung
The title of this great 
story ("It Ended in Moscow") is a good espionnage decoy operation.
Since it ended... in Stockholm!
Thanks, @Barbaria1 , @Fossy and also @settantuno !
story ("It Ended in Moscow") is a good espionnage decoy operation.Since it ended... in Stockholm!
Thanks, @Barbaria1 , @Fossy and also @settantuno !
Loxuru
Graf von Kreuzigung
A side-epilogue.
It neither happened, nor continued or ended in Rome!
Rome, Monday, 22 January 1940.
Palazzo Venezia, Mussolini’s office.
The Duce receives his minister of foreign affairs, Count Ciano.
Mussolini : “You spoke to General Carboni, Ciano!?” [General Carboni : head of SIM - Servizio Informazioni Militare, Italian miliary intelligence].
Ciano : “Yes, Duce!”
Mussolini : “Any interesting intelligence, SIM has acquired recently!?”
Ciano : “Our embassy in Stockholm has acquired interesting information in the Barbara Mohr case!”
Mussolini : “Ah, si, that wayward daughter of Herr Joachim Mohr, the arms manufacturer from Hamburg! I heard, she had vanished in Moscow and was thought to have died in a work camp!?”
Ciano : “Duce, not only does she seem, according to rumours, to have been Stalin’s concubine for a while..”
Mussolini : “Stalin’s concubine!? She is not only wayward then, Ciano, she must also have been very desperate!”
Ciano : “Yes, Duce, but…”
Mussolini : “Why didn’t she come to Italy, with us!? No lousy cold weather here, good food, friendly people, dolce vita, and men! Real men! Real men like us, Ciano! Real men, like me!”
Ciano : “Actually, Duce, she no longer is Stalin’s concubine…”
Mussolini : “See, Ciano! She was desperate! She ran away from him! She would never do when she would be with me!”
Ciano : “Certainly, Duce, but the circumstances of the events are as yet still unclear! There seems to have been a joined British-Swedish operation to help her out of the Soviet-Union, under a false diplomatic cover! The operation apparently failed, and the agents even got killed, probably executed by NKVD. But nevertheless, Signorina Mohr has one way or another managed to escape to Sweden! She is now in Stockholm in the hands of Swedish security service!”
Mussolini : “She is chased over all Europe, since! Hamburg, London, Moscow, and ‘it ended in Stockholm’. Wait! I have her file here! Refresh my memory, Ciano! What makes that Signorina Mohr so interesting, besides her pretty face and her fine tight little – judging from these photographs! Joachim Mohr is not the only, and definitely not the largest arms manufacturer in The Reich!?”
Ciano : “Her father’s business, Duce! He also seems to be involved in developing secret new weapons, that could give The Reich a serious tactical advantage!”
Mussolini : “Yes, now I recall! These secret weapons! What is about them, after all!? Göring boasts about them, Hitler keeps silent, and von Ribbentrop!? Does he even know what it is about?”
Ciano : “Duce!?”
Mussolini : “Yes, Ciano?”
Ciano : “It’s ‘Ribbentrop’, Duce! Just ‘Ribbentrop’, no ‘von’ in his name.”
Mussolini : “Yes, Ciano! You are right! It’s Ribbentrop! I am afraid, that arrogant, pompous idiot ingrains us too much with his self-declared nobility status! Even Herr Hitler jokes about it nowadays!”
Ciano : “Really, Duce?”
Mussolini : “He does! That gossip of course stays here, understood, Ciano!? The Führer is getting displeased about Ribbentrop, since he had assured, neither France nor Britain would ever declare a war against him, just for the cause of the Danzig Corridor! But after all, what brilliancy would he expect from a former chicken breeder!”
Ciano : “He was a wine trader, Duce! You are confusing Ribbentrop with Himmler, who has been a chicken breeder!”
Mussolini : “All the same, Ciano! Now, let’s take action! I want Barbara Mohr brought here, from Sweden. Order Carboni to prepare an operation with SIM!”
Ciano : “To what purpose, Duce!?”
Mussolini : “Purpose!? Think of something about these secret weapons! And as long as she is our guest, I will take care of her myself! Of course, I bet, she would prefer to stay! What Stalin got, I want!”
Ciano : “Is that a good idea, Duce?”
Mussolini : “Why not, Ciano!? I can take care of her well!”
Ciano : “I heard from SIM too, she can terribly complain, Duce!”
Mussolini : “Ciano! You should know me better! As a party comrade and as my son-in-law! No women ever complained after knowing me better!”
Ciano : “She is said to be a terrible car driver…”
Mussolini : “I shall drive her!”
Ciano : “She has trouble, understanding fine print!”
Mussolini : “Never mind! She is not supposed to read things here! As long as she is good in bed!”
Ciano : “She… issues demerits to those she thinks they mock her!”
Mussolini : “I shall give her demerits, with my bare hands on her bare tight little, over my lap, when she does not behave! With greatest pleasure, Ciano! So, what’s all the problem?”
Ciano : “Duce, as …your son-in-law…”
Mussolini : “I know what you are up to, Ciano! It is Clara’s reaction, you worry about, isn’t it!?”
Ciano : “Something like that… yes!”
Mussolini : “Listen, Galeazzo! Both as your Duce and as head of the family, Signorina Petacci is my problem! I can handle it, and I will handle it! Trust me! Just think about how we would get Signorina Mohr out of Stockholm!?”
Ciano : “Handbook says : send a few gliders with commando’s to her residence, just get her out of her room, and rush her out with a small plane that needs only very short landing and take-off strips. A Fieseler Storch, for instance, like the Germans have!”
Mussolini : “No, Ciano, such a plan will never work! Nowhere, never! What about this: when she makes a walk in a park in Stockholm, our men can abduct her!?”
Ciano : “Duce, we are not The Syndicate! Perhaps, there are more subtle ways, then.”
Mussolini : “Name one, Ciano!?”
Ciano : “Seduction, Duce! After all we are Italians, aren’t we!? First step : SIM has found out that Signorina Mohr is fond of Riesling wine! We could invite her on a Riesling wine party! Raised by some of our attractive and seducing Italian men! SIM also heard that Signorina Mohr is already carried away after two glasses of Riesling! Our Italian charms will do the rest!”
Mussolini : “Yes, Ciano, and do an opiate in her glass!”
Ciano : “If necessary, Duce! Anyway, once we got her out of Sweden, the rest should be piece of cake. We’ll ship her over neutral countries to Rome!”
Mussolini : “All right, Ciano! We need Riesling! Do you know a good wine trader who can provide us with two crates or so?”
Ciano : “Ribbentrop?”
Mussolini : “Che cosa..!?”
Ciano : “Für guten Wein, musst Ihr bei Ribbentrop sein!”
Mussolini : “Very funny, Ciano! But leave the Nazis out of our plans! Especially him! Go, and speak with Carboni about my plan! How should we call this operation, by the way!?”
Ciano : “Mhhh. Why not ‘Operation Riesling’, Duce?”
Mussolini : “Isn’t that too obvious, Ciano!”
Ciano : “The advantage of naming an operation with an obvious code name, Duce, is that no one will think we would have been so stupid to choose an obvious name for the operation! All those who know Signorina Mohr’s preference for Riesling, will never come up with the idea that Signorina Mohr is the actual target of a secret operation codenamed ‘Riesling’, and that we want to catch her by means of Riesling wine!”
Mussolini : “Yes, Ciano! Very cunning strategy! It will be ‘Operation Riesling’! Agreed!”
(Five minutes later : hardly has Ciano left the office to confer with General Carboni, or Clara Petacci, Mussolini’s mistress, enters).
Clara Petacci : “Benito! I sawwa Count Ciano and General Carboni!? Tella me! Tella me! What is going to happen!? Are you going to declare war on France!?”
Mussolini : “Declare war on France? No Clara, that’s not the question today!”
Clara Petacci (pouting) : “But Benito!? You promised you would! You promised me a romantic stay in Paris!? And a Holiday in mondain Saint-Tropez!? And a villa in Monte Carlo!?”
Mussolini : “Clara, it is not that simple! There is such a thing as diplomacy, you know…!”
(meanwhile, Petacci, was browsing Mussolini’s desk, and she finds the Barbara Mohr file, the Duce had not yet put back).
Clara Petacci (waving with a photo of Barbara Mohr) : “Benito! Who isa this bimbo!?”
Mussolini : “Nothing special, Claretta! A foreign spy, we like to catch!”
Clara Petacci : “Benito! Do you think I’ma stupid!? I knowa what you are upa to, Benito! Anda letta me tella you this! If this ‘spy’ of you setsa one foot into this Palazzo, I usa my contacts to have her interrogated in a way treatment from Gestapo, SIS and NKVD combined willa be tickling! And at the end, I willa scratcha her eyes out myselva! Capice, Benito!?”
Mussolini : “But, cara Claretta, mi amore…!?”
Clara Petacci : “And after I am done with her, I will crusha your balls, Benito!”
(meanwhile, Ciano has started discussing Operation Riesling with General Carboni in a nearby meeting room in the palazzo. Telephone rings, Ciano takes up).
Ciano : “Pronto!?”
Operator : “Il Duce wants to speak you, Vostra Eccellenza!”
Ciano : “All right! Duce!?”
Mussolini : “Ciano! Change of orders! Cancel Operation Riesling immediately! Do you hear!? Immediately!”
Ciano : “At your orders, Duce!”
Ciano lays down the phone, and looks ironically at Carboni : “Petacci must have found out!”
It neither happened, nor continued or ended in Rome!
Rome, Monday, 22 January 1940.
Palazzo Venezia, Mussolini’s office.
The Duce receives his minister of foreign affairs, Count Ciano.
Mussolini : “You spoke to General Carboni, Ciano!?” [General Carboni : head of SIM - Servizio Informazioni Militare, Italian miliary intelligence].
Ciano : “Yes, Duce!”
Mussolini : “Any interesting intelligence, SIM has acquired recently!?”
Ciano : “Our embassy in Stockholm has acquired interesting information in the Barbara Mohr case!”
Mussolini : “Ah, si, that wayward daughter of Herr Joachim Mohr, the arms manufacturer from Hamburg! I heard, she had vanished in Moscow and was thought to have died in a work camp!?”
Ciano : “Duce, not only does she seem, according to rumours, to have been Stalin’s concubine for a while..”
Mussolini : “Stalin’s concubine!? She is not only wayward then, Ciano, she must also have been very desperate!”
Ciano : “Yes, Duce, but…”
Mussolini : “Why didn’t she come to Italy, with us!? No lousy cold weather here, good food, friendly people, dolce vita, and men! Real men! Real men like us, Ciano! Real men, like me!”
Ciano : “Actually, Duce, she no longer is Stalin’s concubine…”
Mussolini : “See, Ciano! She was desperate! She ran away from him! She would never do when she would be with me!”
Ciano : “Certainly, Duce, but the circumstances of the events are as yet still unclear! There seems to have been a joined British-Swedish operation to help her out of the Soviet-Union, under a false diplomatic cover! The operation apparently failed, and the agents even got killed, probably executed by NKVD. But nevertheless, Signorina Mohr has one way or another managed to escape to Sweden! She is now in Stockholm in the hands of Swedish security service!”
Mussolini : “She is chased over all Europe, since! Hamburg, London, Moscow, and ‘it ended in Stockholm’. Wait! I have her file here! Refresh my memory, Ciano! What makes that Signorina Mohr so interesting, besides her pretty face and her fine tight little – judging from these photographs! Joachim Mohr is not the only, and definitely not the largest arms manufacturer in The Reich!?”
Ciano : “Her father’s business, Duce! He also seems to be involved in developing secret new weapons, that could give The Reich a serious tactical advantage!”
Mussolini : “Yes, now I recall! These secret weapons! What is about them, after all!? Göring boasts about them, Hitler keeps silent, and von Ribbentrop!? Does he even know what it is about?”
Ciano : “Duce!?”
Mussolini : “Yes, Ciano?”
Ciano : “It’s ‘Ribbentrop’, Duce! Just ‘Ribbentrop’, no ‘von’ in his name.”
Mussolini : “Yes, Ciano! You are right! It’s Ribbentrop! I am afraid, that arrogant, pompous idiot ingrains us too much with his self-declared nobility status! Even Herr Hitler jokes about it nowadays!”
Ciano : “Really, Duce?”
Mussolini : “He does! That gossip of course stays here, understood, Ciano!? The Führer is getting displeased about Ribbentrop, since he had assured, neither France nor Britain would ever declare a war against him, just for the cause of the Danzig Corridor! But after all, what brilliancy would he expect from a former chicken breeder!”
Ciano : “He was a wine trader, Duce! You are confusing Ribbentrop with Himmler, who has been a chicken breeder!”
Mussolini : “All the same, Ciano! Now, let’s take action! I want Barbara Mohr brought here, from Sweden. Order Carboni to prepare an operation with SIM!”
Ciano : “To what purpose, Duce!?”
Mussolini : “Purpose!? Think of something about these secret weapons! And as long as she is our guest, I will take care of her myself! Of course, I bet, she would prefer to stay! What Stalin got, I want!”
Ciano : “Is that a good idea, Duce?”
Mussolini : “Why not, Ciano!? I can take care of her well!”
Ciano : “I heard from SIM too, she can terribly complain, Duce!”
Mussolini : “Ciano! You should know me better! As a party comrade and as my son-in-law! No women ever complained after knowing me better!”
Ciano : “She is said to be a terrible car driver…”
Mussolini : “I shall drive her!”
Ciano : “She has trouble, understanding fine print!”
Mussolini : “Never mind! She is not supposed to read things here! As long as she is good in bed!”
Ciano : “She… issues demerits to those she thinks they mock her!”
Mussolini : “I shall give her demerits, with my bare hands on her bare tight little, over my lap, when she does not behave! With greatest pleasure, Ciano! So, what’s all the problem?”
Ciano : “Duce, as …your son-in-law…”
Mussolini : “I know what you are up to, Ciano! It is Clara’s reaction, you worry about, isn’t it!?”
Ciano : “Something like that… yes!”
Mussolini : “Listen, Galeazzo! Both as your Duce and as head of the family, Signorina Petacci is my problem! I can handle it, and I will handle it! Trust me! Just think about how we would get Signorina Mohr out of Stockholm!?”
Ciano : “Handbook says : send a few gliders with commando’s to her residence, just get her out of her room, and rush her out with a small plane that needs only very short landing and take-off strips. A Fieseler Storch, for instance, like the Germans have!”
Mussolini : “No, Ciano, such a plan will never work! Nowhere, never! What about this: when she makes a walk in a park in Stockholm, our men can abduct her!?”
Ciano : “Duce, we are not The Syndicate! Perhaps, there are more subtle ways, then.”
Mussolini : “Name one, Ciano!?”
Ciano : “Seduction, Duce! After all we are Italians, aren’t we!? First step : SIM has found out that Signorina Mohr is fond of Riesling wine! We could invite her on a Riesling wine party! Raised by some of our attractive and seducing Italian men! SIM also heard that Signorina Mohr is already carried away after two glasses of Riesling! Our Italian charms will do the rest!”
Mussolini : “Yes, Ciano, and do an opiate in her glass!”
Ciano : “If necessary, Duce! Anyway, once we got her out of Sweden, the rest should be piece of cake. We’ll ship her over neutral countries to Rome!”
Mussolini : “All right, Ciano! We need Riesling! Do you know a good wine trader who can provide us with two crates or so?”
Ciano : “Ribbentrop?”
Mussolini : “Che cosa..!?”
Ciano : “Für guten Wein, musst Ihr bei Ribbentrop sein!”
Mussolini : “Very funny, Ciano! But leave the Nazis out of our plans! Especially him! Go, and speak with Carboni about my plan! How should we call this operation, by the way!?”
Ciano : “Mhhh. Why not ‘Operation Riesling’, Duce?”
Mussolini : “Isn’t that too obvious, Ciano!”
Ciano : “The advantage of naming an operation with an obvious code name, Duce, is that no one will think we would have been so stupid to choose an obvious name for the operation! All those who know Signorina Mohr’s preference for Riesling, will never come up with the idea that Signorina Mohr is the actual target of a secret operation codenamed ‘Riesling’, and that we want to catch her by means of Riesling wine!”
Mussolini : “Yes, Ciano! Very cunning strategy! It will be ‘Operation Riesling’! Agreed!”
(Five minutes later : hardly has Ciano left the office to confer with General Carboni, or Clara Petacci, Mussolini’s mistress, enters).
Clara Petacci : “Benito! I sawwa Count Ciano and General Carboni!? Tella me! Tella me! What is going to happen!? Are you going to declare war on France!?”
Mussolini : “Declare war on France? No Clara, that’s not the question today!”
Clara Petacci (pouting) : “But Benito!? You promised you would! You promised me a romantic stay in Paris!? And a Holiday in mondain Saint-Tropez!? And a villa in Monte Carlo!?”
Mussolini : “Clara, it is not that simple! There is such a thing as diplomacy, you know…!”
(meanwhile, Petacci, was browsing Mussolini’s desk, and she finds the Barbara Mohr file, the Duce had not yet put back).
Clara Petacci (waving with a photo of Barbara Mohr) : “Benito! Who isa this bimbo!?”
Mussolini : “Nothing special, Claretta! A foreign spy, we like to catch!”
Clara Petacci : “Benito! Do you think I’ma stupid!? I knowa what you are upa to, Benito! Anda letta me tella you this! If this ‘spy’ of you setsa one foot into this Palazzo, I usa my contacts to have her interrogated in a way treatment from Gestapo, SIS and NKVD combined willa be tickling! And at the end, I willa scratcha her eyes out myselva! Capice, Benito!?”
Mussolini : “But, cara Claretta, mi amore…!?”
Clara Petacci : “And after I am done with her, I will crusha your balls, Benito!”
(meanwhile, Ciano has started discussing Operation Riesling with General Carboni in a nearby meeting room in the palazzo. Telephone rings, Ciano takes up).
Ciano : “Pronto!?”
Operator : “Il Duce wants to speak you, Vostra Eccellenza!”
Ciano : “All right! Duce!?”
Mussolini : “Ciano! Change of orders! Cancel Operation Riesling immediately! Do you hear!? Immediately!”
Ciano : “At your orders, Duce!”
Ciano lays down the phone, and looks ironically at Carboni : “Petacci must have found out!”