DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE R. JAMES WOOLSEY PRESENTS MEDALS FOR ACHIEVEMENTS IN SCIENCE AND INTELLIGENCE TO R.V. JONES AND MME JEANNIE DE CLARENS

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DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE R. JAMES WOOLSEY
PRESENTS MEDALS FOR ACHIEVEMENTS IN SCIENCE AND
INTELLIGENCE TO R.V. JONES AND MME. JEANNIE de CLARENS
CIA HEADQUARTERS (Langley, VA) -- British physicist,
Professor Reginald Victor Jones, was presented with a
perpetual intelligence medal in his name by Director of
Central Intelligence R. James Woolsey in a ceremony at CIA
Headquarters.in Langley, VA. The R.V. Jones Intelligence
Award will go in subsequent years to persons who, like Jones,
personify "scientific acumen, applied with art in the cause
of freedom," Woolsey said.
Mme. Jeannie de Clarens, received the CIA's Agency Seal
Medallion for her courageous work reporting to the Allies
from behind German lines. At age 20 she started working as
an interpreter at the headquarters of General von Reichenau's
army group assembling for the invasion of England. From that
position she began reporting to the Allies and was arrested
for the first time in 1941 by the Gestapo. She was released
for insufficient evidence and resumed spying, this time for
two undercover networks in Paris which reported to R.V. Jones
who was Winston Churchill's scientific. adviser in London.
Jones,82, has been a Professor of Natural Philosophy at
the University of Aberdeen since 1946 and a Professor
Emeritus since 1981. He served as Assistant Director of the
Royal Air Force Intelligence Section during world war II. in
1946 he was awarded the U.S. Medal of Freedom.
Jones was one of the first scientists in the war of
secret technology which gave the Allies the keys to victory
in World war II. As a young man, Jones worked with Churchill
and other British leaders, all much older than he, counseling
them on ways to counter the war machine of Nazi Germany. He
served as a science officer for the British Air Ministry and
as an adviser to MI-6.
Jones successfully countered the mysterious radio beams
code named ,Knickebein", or "crooked leg," which directed
German night bombers to targets over England. The Germans,
operating powerful radio transmitters deep inside their
country, broadcast two steerable narrow beams which
intersected over Great Britain.
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German bomber pilots would hear high-pitched dots in
their earphones if they went "off the beam" one way, and
would hear dashes if they veered the other direction. At the
point where the two signals intersected, the bomber pilots
would hear a steady tone and release their bombs. These
beams were code named "Headaches." Jones, the young
astronomer-physicist, prescribed their antidote.
In August, 1940, the Germans added devastating night
attacks to their daytime bomb runs, Just in time, Jones tuned
hospital diathermy equipment normally used for cauterization
to the frequencies of the German beams, neutralizing them
with noise. A short while later, under the code name
"Aspirin," radio transmitters were used to broadcast whining
tones on top of the German signals to the obvious confusion
of many a Luftwaffe pilot who saw only water or woodlands
where his signals said the bombs were supposed to drop.
In remarks prepared for the award ceremony in the
Headquarters Auditorium, DCI Woolsey said, "The Germans
boasted of secret weapons, of breakthroughs in radar and
rocket technology. But they didn't have Reg. Of Reg Jones,
Churchill said it best: 'He did more to save us from
disaster than many who are glittering with trinkets.'"
The Germans were to develop other electronic tools in
the air war. one by one, Jones and his team countered them,
Jones also took the lead in developing countermeasures to the
radar shield the Germans threw up around their border. A
daring raid by British paratroopers captured the puzzling
Wurtzburg apparatus which used short wave radar. This
device, coupled with ordinary radar, gave the Germans an
added dimension to their defense system. With Wurtzburg,
Germany could determine a distant plane's altitude, not just
its range and bearing. The capability had to be countered.
Another Jones discovery led to the project code-named
"Window." He determined that strips of tinfoil, trimmed to
radar-frequency lengths, could be dropped from attacking
planes, blinding radar systems of the enemy below.
Ironically, the British held off using "Window" for months,
fearing the Germans would turn the tables and use it on
England. When the British used it on the night of July 24,
1943, in a raid by 743 Allied bombers, it worked! Forty
tons, or 92 million strips, of tinfoil feathered through the
sky, turning German radar screens into nightmares of
confusing reflected images. It appeared to them that 11,000
bombers were over the city.
In presenting the award to Jones, Director Woolsey
said his pioneering work in the darkest days of World War II
stand as a guide for those engaged in intelligence work
today. said Woolsey, "First, Reg showed us that the choice
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is not between classic espionage and science, it must be
intelligence an science."
Mme. de Clarens, was code-named "AMNIARIX" by the
Allies. In 1943 she got to know a German officer working on
a new terror weapon, the V-1 flying bomb. She filed a report
in September 1943 detailing for the first time the order of
battle of the German missile attack program. She also
provided information on German efforts to develop a guided
bomb designed to destroy London.
just before D-Day, the British planned to evacuate
"AMNIARIX" and two other agents, and the secrets they had
compiled. However, she was captured by the Gestapo after
warning her companions to escape. They were successful.
Mme. de clarens was not as fortunate. She was sent first to
Ravensbruck concentration camp, then transferred to
Konigsberg punishment camp and finally to Torgau
concentration camp in Saxony, where she was liberated at the
end of the war. Among her awards are the Croix de Guerre
(with clusters), and the Medaille de Is Resistance. Mme. de
Clarens also received the King's Medal for Courage from the
United Kingdom.
Noting that Mme. de clarens and Jones have been reunited
at times since the war, Director Woolsey said, "No words can
describe her importance to Reg Jones' work, nor to her
contribution to the ultimate triumph of freedom over
totalitarianism." Woolsey said we can only marvel at the
words Mme. de Clarens wrote in her forward to Jones' book The
Wizard Wad.
Wrote Mme. de Clarens, "It is not easy to depart the
lonesomeness, the chilling fear, the unending waiting, the
frustration of not knowing whether the dangerously obtained
information would be passed on -- or passed on in time -- or
recognized as vital in the maze of the 'couriers.-
Mme. de Clarens, who speaks French, English, German and
Spanish, has been involved with teaching and interpreting
since the war. She has been active in Amnesty International.
She and her late husband Henri de Clarens, son of the Vicomte
de Clarens, have two daughters.