Mission Objectives
Military tasks:
- Establish a liaison with the IRA and re-activate their sabotage operations in Britain, (the failed IRA S-Plan Campaign of 1939), also to give them operating funds.
- Establish radio communications with Germany via a transmitter.
- Transmit military information, including weather reports.
- Prepare an underground resistance in the event of Ireland's reoccupation by British troops or invasion by American troops.
Political tasks:
- Bring about an "understanding" between Éamon de Valera and the IRA.
- Influence the attitudes and policies of Ireland's domestic and external situation through objective reporting.
- In the event of Ireland's occupation by Britain or the U.S. to organize resistance thereby tying down enemy forces to the greatest possible extent.
Vessenmayers plan was shown to Führer Adolf Hitler with a recommendation from Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop on 6 September 1941. Hitler decided to postpone the operation with the note of possibly delaying it until October, or even December of that year. The plan was eventually abandoned entirely as was planning involving No.1 SS. Special Service Troop as the feared invasion never materialised.
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