Ron Jeffery

Later, Jeffery was moved to Ostrzeszów, renamed by Germans to Schildberg, and from there, travelled with other prisoners of war to the camp in Łódź, named Litzmannstadt under occupation.

[2] He was also a member of selective Kedyw groups (patrole), which carried out executions of Nazi collaborators and traitors sentenced by special Underground courts.

Smyslovsky wished to induce the western allies to join a Nazi alliance against the Soviet Union, and was prepared to use Jeffery as a go-between.

He brought with him reports from the Polish underground to the British government: these included details of the Katyn massacre for which at that time (and until 1990) the USSR officially blamed on Germany.

A disillusioned Jeffery later attributed his treatment specifically to the actions of Kim Philby and other high-ranking Russian agents entrenched in the British system.