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“There were many squabbles at the multi-headed Camp X, and Stephenson’s financial clout helped smooth out the supervision.
When he got irrated at some of the bickering, Stephenson shut the training camp down. SOE were up some of the money for the
operation of the camp and thought they ran it, Bayly said. “Bill Stephenson just got mad one morning and cancelled the whole
thing and said, ‘Now you are in charge’. And Cuthbert Skilbeck wasn’t going to have that. He said, ‘We put up some of the
money for this place’, so he went down to New York, and he burst into Stephenson’s office and he said, ‘This is quite a deal,
and I’ve told Bayly he has to get out’, and Stephenson said, “Oh, you did?’ And he said, ‘Well, just wait a minute’. He phoned
me downstairs, and I came upstairs and he said, ‘Cuthbert Skilbeck, I’d like to introduce you to your boss.’” Bayly smiled.
“And this is me”.
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