CHARGES AGAINST EVAN, VISCOUNT TREDEGAR
OFFENCES
AGAINST THE OFFICIAL SECRETS ACT
STATEMENT BY CAPTAIN ( TEMPORARY MAJOR )
VISCOUNT
TREDEGAR ( Army Number 414702 )
The book Aspects of Evan : With a transcript of Evan's Court Martial
This article is in response to the fraudulent history about Evan Morgan's service in the Second World War shamelessly outlined by Wales on Line
Captain ( temporary Major ) Viscount Tredegar
OFFENCES
AGAINST THE OFFICIAL SECRETS ACT
STATEMENT BY CAPTAIN ( TEMPORARY MAJOR )
VISCOUNT
TREDEGAR ( Army Number 414702 )
[ Evan was
in the Royal Corps of Signals attached holding Battalion, Scots Guards. He also
held the post of Honorary Colonel in the
Monmouthshire Regiment ]
From National Archives WO 71/ 1078
I wish to make the following voluntary statement. I
have been warned that anything I may say may be used in evidence.
Signature of the Colonel and Evan Morgan (Tredegar)
Evan in Venice with the pidegons
STATEMENT BY VISCOUNT TREDEGAR
I am the Officer Commanding Special Section (Carrier Pigeon) Service and I
work at Wing House, Piccadilly, London W.1.
I assumed these duties during the first
week of November 1942.
I wish to apologise to the Director of
Signals for what appears to be a gross breach of
trust.
With regard to the demonstration of the
use of the [ pigeon ] container and the parachute I did not consider this to be
secret as it has received wide publicity in the press. Lt Colonel Cullinan [
Evan’s immediate superior] has frequently
brought army officers into my room and ordered me to carry out this
demonstration in their presence.
I told the Girl Guide leaders [ named Nora McIntyre and Helen Margaret
Isherwood ] on 15 March 1943 that the
green message containers were used in connection in the pigeons bringing back
information from occupied territory. I had no reason to think that this
information was secret.
I have in my office a map showing
England and part of the continent. This map has a number of coloured pins
affixed to it. Those in England indicate the pigeon lofts in this country and
those on the continent were affixed by a Dutchman a Mr Ray who had recently
escaped Holland.
He placed the pins in Holland where he
knew there were allied sympathisers who would be prepared to revolt against the
enemy in the event of an allied landing.
I did point out to the Girl Guide
leaders a point North West of the ZUIDER
ZEE. I remember telling them that at the
point which I indicated on the map there had been an important enemy radio-location
station, information as to which had been brought back by a pigeon and that as
a result within a very short time the RAF laid it flat. This information was
given to me by Colonel Cullinan, who also told me that he had been
congratulated by superior authority, which information I also passed on to the
guide leaders. I further told them that pigeons were being dropped by parachute
in Holland.
I did take from my filing cabinet an
envelope which contained a copy of instructions and questionnaire addressed to
the finder of the pigeon these instructions and questionnaire are in French and
Dutch and I understand that they are obsolete. Major Pearson has frequently
shown these documents to visitors at the office. In the envelope in question
some small pieces of paper are pinned to the questionnaire. The envelope was
not marked secret. There is an envelope in my safe containing secret papers
which I have not shown to anyone.
The safe is on top of the filing cabinet and to a casual observer it might appear that
I had taken a document from the safe whereas I had in fact taken it from the
filing cabinet which I actually did on this occasion. I may have put the
envelope back in the safe instead of the filing cabinet.
I did disclose to Subaltern Harvey the significance of the yellow pins on
the map which I considered I was entitled to do as she was working in the room
with me.
On 15 March 1943 Major Cassidy [ of the Royal Army Medical Corps ] brought
in to my office photographic enlargements of two slides given to him previously
by Subaltern Mackenzie. These
enlargements represented a currency note and …..at the moment. I don’t know where Subaltern Mackenzie got the slides. These enlargements
were shown to the Girl Guide leaders. Major Cassidy said that the process of
micro-photography being used in the pigeon service was under consideration by
the authorities.
I have known Mr Hartman for many years.
He is engaged in welfare work amongst soldiers from the Channel Islands. He
came to see me at the suggestion of another branch of the War Office to discuss
the possibility of obtaining information from the Channel Islands concerning the families of the soldiers in
whom Mr Hartman was interested. I may have been the first to mention the use of
pigeons but I think the purpose of Mr Hartman’s visit to me was to discuss the
use of pigeons to ….information from the Channel Islands because he knew that I was in charge of
pigeons. I referred him to Captain Kleyn [ an Officer in the Intelligence
Corps] with whom he discussed the
matter.
I did tell the Girl Guide leaders on 15
March 1943 that it was possible to drop pigeons at a specified place where the
intelligence service knew that there was a person who would send back a
message.
On Sunday 21 March 1943 Colonel Cullinan told me I had been reported
by Subaltern Stanley Mackenzie in respect of the incidents of 15 March 1943. He
suggested that I should have an operation that I had been contemplating for
some time and that I should resign my appointment as Officer in Charge Special Section, and that after the operation
I should make a full apology to the Director of Signals for my indiscretion.
Colonel Cullinan told me not to report the matter to higher authority and that
he did not intend to do so himself. The matter has remained in that state up to
the present time.
Signed
‘Tredegar’
Taken down by me and witnessed
G. Walton Major
Security Officer
London District
EXTRACTED FROM
NATIONAL ARCHIVES FILE
WO 71/1078
This item has been posted in response to the
repeated lies by the history fraudsters led by Wales on Line who say that Evan Morgan
got off the charges raised for breaches against the Army Act and the
Official Secrets Act. The history
fraudsters say MI5 intervened and Evan was released without charge.MI5 did NOT intervene to save Evan’s skin, Evan was tried and found guilty on two of the three charges against him tried by Court Martial on 19 April 1943. He was severely reprimanded. Evan later resigned his commission in the Army. This was announced in the London Gazette on 13 August 1943.
The Verdict of the Court Martial
Evan was found guilty on two of the three counts
HE WAS SEVERELY REPRIMANDED
ANY QUESTIONS PLEASE CONTACT THE AUTHOR WILLIAM CROSS BY E-MAIL
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