No. 153 NAI DFA Holy See Embassy 14/41

Telegram from Frederick H. Boland to Joseph P. Walshe (Holy See)
(No. 79) (Most Urgent)

Dublin, 3 October 1948

Clissmann1 is in urgent difficulties about Italian residence pending his return to Ireland. Please see him. He will explain what difficulty is. Are arranging travelling details with MacDonald. Meanwhile Minister would be most grateful personally if you do everything possible to solve present difficulties even if it means keeping Clissmann at the Embassy and saying that he has been there since the beginning in the full 6000 stop legal knows nothing and kept up best confined Embassy.2 Underlined part except last words incomprehensible.

1 In 1948 the British security and diplomatic services were reconsidering the nature of Clissmann's wartime activities (see TNA FO 940/49).

2 The '6000' is a coding/decoding error and the text of the document has been reproduced as found.



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