Volume 6 1939~1941


Doc No.
Date
Subject

No. 360 NAI DFA Madrid Embassy 10/11 Pt 4

Telegram from Leopold H. Kerney to Joseph P. Walshe (Dublin)
(No. 120) (Personal) (Copy)

Madrid, 5 December 1940

Mrs Clissmann1 Copenhagen writes November 21 'I have seen someone who has many many reasons to be thankful to you and who asked to be remembered to you'. This can only refer to Ryan.

1 Elizabeth 'Budge' Clissmann, nee Mulcahy, wife of Helmut Clissmann, representative of the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (German Academic Exchange Service) in Dublin who developed connections with the IRA in the late 1930s for the German intelligence services. Helmut and Budge Clissmann were close friends of Kerney.