Gestapo uses pigeons to trap Dutch

(c) Crown copyright images reproduced by courtesy of The National Archives, London, UK

Catalog numbers WO208/3562 #30, #31, #32

In this post are the newspaper clipping citing the German plot to use pigeons to trap the Dutch and the English language insertion in Vrij Nederland, the Dutch clandestine newspaper. 

The third document describes a meeting with the Dutch Intelligence Service.  It lists strategies proposed by the British to communicate to the Dutch which pigeons were truly British.  These strategies included using underground channels, the notice in Vrij Nederland warning the Dutch about the “Gestapo pigeons,” and an Orange broadcast on the BBC.  Orange broadcast is a reference to Radio Orange.  This was the broadcast on the BBC in Dutch, overseen by the Dutch government-in-exile, which was broadcast from London.  You may need to scroll left-right to read the Vrij Nederland insertion.The typing on the third document is a bit faint.