Operation Compromised
The operation was severely compromised by Soviet counter-intelligence, primarily through information provided by British double agents. In the extensive counter-operation "Lursen-S" (named for Lürssen, the manufacturer of the E-boats), the NKVD/KGB captured nearly every one of the 42 Baltic agents inserted into the field. Many of them were turned as double agents who infiltrated and significantly weakened the Baltic resistance.
One of the agents sent to Estonia and captured by the KGB, Mart Männik, wrote an autobiography "A Tangled Web. A British Spy in Estonia" which was published after his death and has been translated into English. The book gives an account of his experiences throughout and after the unsuccessful operation.
MI6 suspended the operation in 1955 due to the increasing loss of agents and suspicions that the operation was compromised. The last mission was a landing on Saaremaa in April 1955.
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