Réseau AGIR
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The Réseau AGIR was a World War II espionage group founded by French wartime resister Michel Hollard that provided decisive human intelligence on V-1 flying bomb facilities in the North of France. Tha
Vertical photographic-reconnaissance aerial of a flying-bomb launch site under construction at Bois Carre, near Yvrench, discovered and documented by the agents of the Réseau AGIR
Plaque commemorating the 20 people who were killed in action for the Réseau AGIR during World War II. It is located in Paris, at the rue de Bercy 207, where was situated the former Hotel d'Annecy where the command post of the Réseau AGIR.
AGIR provided HUMINT on V-1 flying bomb "ski sites", e.g., some had launch ramps ("P", bottom), here Maisoncelle.
Fresnes Prison
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Fresnes Prison is the second largest prison in France, located in the town of Fresnes, Val-de-Marne, south of Paris. It comprises a large men's prison of about 1,200 cells, a smaller one for women and
Réseau AGIR
…the Rue du Faubourg-Saint-Denis. Hollard was tortured and subjected to waterboarding five times by the Gestapo and the Milice, and imprisoned first at Fresnes prison and in June 1944 as a forced laborer at the main Neuengamme concentration camp. Jules Mailly died in Mauthausen concentration camp. The network was…
View of the prison