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Line 8: There were strong suspicions in the SPINDLE network that Bardet had betrayed André Marsac, and [[Adolphe Rabinovitch]] «Arnauld» was only dissuaded by Sansom from shooting him out of hand.<ref name=DofW>''[[Duel of Wits]]'', Peter Churchill, Hodder and Stoughton, 1953</ref> After a series of casual daily talks in Marsac's cell, Bleicher knew just about all there was to know about the SPINDLE group in St Jorioz, including the names of Churchill and Sansom. ~~and in~~In April 1943 he returned to Saint-Jorioz where he arrested them and transferred them to [[Fresnes prison]], where they were interrogated before being transferred to concentration camps.<ref name=SitC>''''[[The Spirit in the Cage]]'', Peter Churchill, Hodder and Stoughton, 1954</ref><ref name = "FinF" /> Churchill and Sansom were condemned to death but survived,<ref name=DofW /> whereas the majority of captured SOE F Section agents were executed.<ref>The [[Valençay SOE Memorial]] commemorates the members of the Special Operations Executive F Section who lost their lives.</ref> Bardet betrayed the [[SOE F Section networks#Inventor\|INVENTOR]] network, leading to the arrests in October/November 1943 of its organiser [[Sidney Charles Jones\|Sidney Jones]], wireless operator [[Marcel Clech]], and courier [[Vera Leigh]], all of whom were executed, and resulting in the collapse of the network.<ref name = "Foot">''SOE in France: an account of the work of the British Special Operations Executive in France, 1940–1944'', MRD Foot, HMSO, London, 1966.</ref>

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