Separate Functions During Peacetime?
There is an enormous difference in DA/UW during an overt war and in peacetime. "The covert operations conducted during the war did not have to be unattributable. On the contrary; saboteurs, for example, in order to avoid precipitating reprisals on the local population, would leave behind evidence which tended to indicate that agents were responsible. Security and secrecy were important, but only tactically important." It was important that the should not know the identities and homes of the resistance workers, but it never mattered at all that the should know that operations were directed from outside occupied territory (i.e., the operations were covert, not clandestine). Publicizing the external support, in fact, helped the underground in its recruiting.
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