John Russell of the Foreign Office told Dr Donker that he could say quite definitely that no agents had been sacrificed. But when Dr Donker asked to interview Major Bingham, the SOE officer in charge of Dutch operations, Mr Russell recommended that he should be allowed to do so, adding: "It seems possible that the latter [Donker] may derive from this interview some conviction of the theory which he holds: that we made some appalling mistakes in this business. But if that is all he thinks, we shall have got away with it pretty cheap."