Jacques Desoubrie
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Jacques Desoubrie (1922-1949 [1]) was a French traitor and double agent during the German occupation of France during World War II. He entered the Gestapo in 1941, and infiltrated first the Resistant group Vérité Français, where he had 100 Resistants arrested [1], and then Le Guales where he had 50 Resistants arrested [1]. He infiltrated other groups, such as the escape network known as the Comet Line, that helped Allied airmen whose planes were lost over France or Spain to return to Britain. He used various aliases like Pierre Boulain, Jean Masson or Jacques Leman.
After the Liberation, he fled to Germany. He participated to the creation of the Catholic traditionalist Cité catholique group, along with Jean Ousset, Charles Maurras' personal secretary, in 1946 [2]. Desoubrie was then arrested after being denounced by his ex-mistress, and executed as a Collaborationist in December 1949 in the fort of Montrouge, in Arcueil (near Paris) [1].
