Operation CHAR

As the Allies moved into Europe following the D-Day invasion, the SOE's Special Group was busy tracking down individuals identified on the SPARK List and "clarifying their status", which mostly meant assassinating them. These activities continued after Germany's surrender, including individual actions across Europe.¹ Ostensibly, CHAR ended when SOE did in late 1945, but the mandate was passed to the newly-formed Laundry as part of Project GLASS SURGEON.²

In fact, the Laundry conducted CHAR actions as late as the mid-1960s in South America and the Middle East.

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Footnotes

1. The SOE did not, officially, know of or support nakam ("revenge") assassinations carried out illegally in Occupied Germany by former concentration-camp inmates and members of the British Army's Jewish Legion. However, the cordial nature of the cooperation that resulted when a Laundry hit-team in Argentina crossed paths with Israeli Mossad Nazi-hunting teams (that may have included BAJL veterans) suggest otherwise. Officially, we knew nothing. And did not point out specific individuals for nakam attention.

2. Officers continued to refer to the wetter GLASS SURGEON actions as "CHAR jobs" for years.