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- ↑ "The War Years: Memories of Inter Services Research Bureau". BBC People's War. 1 December 2003. Archived from the original on 11 February 2011. Retrieved 25 April 2009.
- ↑ "WWII Welbikes". Fly Boy Ken. Archived from the original on 6 June 2017. Retrieved 26 April 2009.
- ↑ Boyce, Fredric & Everett, Douglas (2003). SOE: The Scientific Secrets. Sutton Publishing. ISBN 978-0-75093-165-6.
- ↑ "Special Operations Executive Records Release" (PDF). The National Archives . 8 February 2002. Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 October 2005.