Fred Moyse

Fred Moyse , Breton nationalist

Liaison officer

In 1938, it plays on a purely semi-official basis, the role of liaison officer between the various minority nationalist movements, and diffuses, of Dublin to Hong-Kong, and of Moscow to the Cape of Good Hope, a small news bulletin entitled " Avel gornog " ( Vent of West ), which treats Celtic questions.

It would have received the May 25th 1939 with Brussels, (source: Enno Stephan, German Spies in Ireland, Editions of Trévise), the visit of Jim O' Donovan, delegated WILL GO, come to on the spot check the existence of the liaison officer which the Abwehr had announced to him. Because of the multiple and complicated contacts that it had tied with the Écossais, Welsh, Flemish , and the Basques, Moyse had always made a point of acting on a purely independent basis. Domiciled then for a few years with the Netherlands, then with Brussels, it has not been registered with the Breton National Parti, and did not act officially in the name of this one, although it is dependant of a great friendship with François Debeauvais, that it lodges the day before his lawsuit in 1938. It seems however well to have cumulated responsibilities with the Breton National Parti with responsibilities with the Abwehr.

Second world war

1939

The September 25th 1939, it transmits to the I.R.A., while going Brussels to London, the word of code chosen by the Germans to communicate with it, to ensure the establishment of a radio communication between Dublin and Berlin, in order to provide information on what occurred in Great Britain and in Ireland. Following the call of François Debeauvais it clandestinely passes the Belgian border in the area of Saint-Vith, and is made apprehend by Feldgendarmes around Prijm to join Berlin.

1940

It is had a presentiment of to take part in the operation of repatriation of Sean Russel, former chief of the staff of the I.R.A., is become undesirable with the the United States, on board a German Sous-marin near the coasts of the Eire. He is delighted some because the climate of the Reich in war is not appropriate to him. It had tried to obtain a visa for the Denmark where its presence would have been useful for connections between the neutral countries and the Breton separatists. The services of the German police force were opposed vigorously to its departure, and he was even threatened of imprisonment, without the intervention of Debauvais. He was replaced in the operation Sean Russell by Frank Ryan, an Irish agent " accommodated " in Germany. In May 1940, it ensures with its been engaged Flemish, the secretariat of the Breton government in exile: Bretonische Regierung of François Debauvais and Olier Mordrel. The June 20th 1940, the first Breton prisoners released arrive at Rennes, under the control of Fred Moyse (the Germans entered to Rennes the June 18th).

1944

He is member of the Bezen Perrot. In June 1944, it fled in Germany, where he succeeds in being made naturalize German and settles later with Frankfurt.

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