The office which Max Manus, Edvard Tallaksen and Gregers Gram were supposed to assault, lay at the address Kirkeveien 90, where Eng also had one of his apartments.
In addition to the three saboteurs, Dick Zeiner-Henriksen held guard at the front door and four people from Milorg were placed in the area to assist with firepower in case enemies showed up.
[7] Asbjørn Sunde and some associates set up an attempt to assassinate him on 20 August 1942, but Eng did not show up at the location he was expected.
He was then allowed to return to medicine, but then as district physician in remote Kvænangen Municipality, with minimal support or equipment.
[9][10] An image of Vidkun Quisling was hanging in his Burfjord office, and in a 1978 interview he stated that he still followed Nasjonal Samling's ideology.