Operation Details

Steinbutt

'Steinbutt' was a German attempt by the Abwehr intelligence service to establish links with the Welsh nationalist movement in the UK (early November 1940).

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To this end the German intelligence organisation’s Abteilung II sabotage and special purposes department sent a pro-German Spaniard via Portugal to the UK to establish contact with the current leader of the Welsh nationalist movement, and to encourage him to begin a programme of anti-British sabotage.

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