Pigeon Contamination Plan
1 Apr 2016
I have been reading Double Cross: The True Story of The D-Day Spies by Ben Macintyre and the thing I am going to remember the best is … The Pigeon Contamination Plan
Flight Lieutenant Walker was head of ‘The Pigeon Service Special Section, B3C’, charged with disrupting the enemy’s use of pigeons, and deploying Allied pigeons for passing on secret intelligence.
Walker was convinced that Nazi pigeons were now pouring into Britain, by parachute, high-speed motor launch and by U-boat, providing enemy spies in Britain with an undetectable method of sending information to occupied Europe.