[3] London's response to Bardet's request for air transport for Marsac and ‘Colonel Henri’ was to refuse outright and insist that he immediately break off contact with Marsac and ‘Colonel Henri’, however Bardet ignored the orders and returned to Paris where he, along with a number of other agents, was arrested by Bleicher and placed in Fresnes prison.
There were strong suspicions in the SPINDLE network that Bardet had betrayed André Marsac, and Adolphe Rabinovitch «Arnauld» was only dissuaded by Sansom from shooting him out of hand.
[2] After a series of casual daily talks in Marsac's cell, Bleicher knew just about all there was to know about the SPINDLE group in St Jorioz, including the names of Churchill and Sansom.
[8] Having obtained his liberty and sensing that Germany would lose the war, Bardet eventually rejoined the resistance movement.
[3] Bardet was captured by the Allies after the war and condemned to death as a traitor by a French court, but was subsequently reprieved and released.