Jacques Desoubrie

Jacques Desoubrie (22 October 1922 – 20 December 1949)[1] was a double agent who worked for the Gestapo during the German occupation of France and Belgium during World War II.

The lines helped Allied airmen who had been shot down or crash-landed to evade German capture and escape occupied Europe.

He had a close relationship with another woman, Marie-Antoinette Orsini (code named "Colette"), who helped him escort Allied airmen from Brussels to Paris and may have been aware that he was working for the Germans.

[3] In 1943, Desoubrie infiltrated the Belgian and French escape network known as the Comet Line which helped Allied airmen shot down over Belgium.

At great risk to themselves, the people working with the Comet Line exfiltrated the airmen from Belgium through France to neutral Spain from where they could be returned to the United Kingdom.

Andrée's father, Frederic de Jongh, who had fled Brussels to Paris, was attempting to put the pieces of the Comet Line back together.

At the train station, Frederic De Jongh and several other Comet line leaders were arrested by French police and turned over to the Germans.

[10] MI9 agents Albert Ancia and Jean de Blommaert asked the Resistance group French Forces of the Interior (FFI) to assassinate Desoubrie.

[12] In August 1944, while attempting to reach Spain, Lamason and Chapman were captured by the Gestapo in Paris after they were betrayed by Desoubrie for 10,000 francs each.