Editing Carte network (section)

===Downfall===
Carte was doomed by its quixotic nature and the list of supporters the Germans had in their possession. German suppression of Carte began in March 1943 with a complicated plot. André Marsac, from whom the Carte list had been stolen by the Abwehr, was arrested near the Champs Élysées by [[Hugo Bleicher]], a sergeant in the Abwehr, and incarcerated in [[Fresnes prison]].  Bleicher, posing as an anti-Nazi colonel, told Marsac that he wished to defect, and the pair concocted an elaborate scheme involving the co-operation of Marsac's assistant [[Roger Bardet]], who was persuaded by letter to visit Marsac in prison. The outcome of Bleicher's deception was the arrest on 16 April 1943 of Churchill and his courier, [[Odette Sansom]]. A bonus was provided by Marsac, who supplied Bleicher with the addresses of some twenty clandestine networks in Bordeaux, Strasbourg and Marseille.

Henri Frager had returned to France to assume leadership of the new SOE [[SOE F Section networks#Donkeyman|Donkeyman]] circuit built on the remnants of Carte. Bardet, having been persuaded to betray Frager, was allowed to 'escape' German control. Frager was taken in by the escape story. He also fell for Bardet's offer to provide new forged identity papers for the British SOE agents working with him, and allowed photographs of the agents to be supplied to Bardet for that purpose.   One of the agents was [[Vera Leigh]]. The 'forged' papers were provided by the Germans.  On 2 July 1944 Frager attended a rendezvous with Bleicher (again posing as the anti-Nazi colonel), and was arrested. The meeting had been arranged by Bardet. Having obtained his liberty and sensing that Germany would lose the war, Bardet eventually rejoined the resistance movement.

The Abwehr's acquisition of Girard's list in November 1942 would have further implications for other SOE agents not directly involved with Carte.  Carte had given [[Francis Suttill]], an SOE agent, a list of contacts which he used.  He instructed his courier [[Andrée Borrel]] to contact two sisters, [[:fr:Geraldine Tambour|Geraldine]] and [[Madeleine Tambour]] in Paris.  The sisters were known to several members of Suttill's [[Timeline of the Prosper Network|Prosper network]] who used them to pass on letters and held meetings in their Paris apartment. The sisters were arrested by the [[Gestapo]] in April 1943 which was the beginning of the destruction of the Prosper network and the execution of Suttill, Borrel, [[Gilbert Norman]], and other members of the Prosper network.