It seems after she was dismissed, Treasure was still causing
difficulties. Living in Paris, she was threatening the British with
writing her memoirs as she had kept a diary during the war years.
Both the British and Americans were keen to sensor anything she
might write as it would .
1
The
same letter also notes that she had also fallen out with the
American intelligence forces too. They were all trying to get hold of
the threatened book in late 1944, by trickery, as Mrs Barton writes –
so deceit seemed to be the only method that
would work.
She was reprimanded by the French, British and Americans for her
behaviour, and yet she had also been of great use to them. The
French were also not happy about any proposed book and in the
last quarter of 1944 there was a flurry of communications about her
proposed writing. She was refereed to the British as “gangsters” in
communications and on 13
th
November 1944, Tar Robinson to Mrs
Barton who was another handler,
!"
These letters do not create a favourable
opinion of what was clearly a very difficult agent.
Sergueiew went on to join the Free French forces in England, and
after training, she returned to France as a liaison officer working
with Displaced Persons. Her last posting was to liaise with the US
army officer in charge of the Ehrfurt area (including the infamous
Buchenwald camp) Major John Barton ("Bart") Collings. After a
year, he proposed to her and they married in Paris in August 1946.
1 TNA ref. KV-2-466_02
letter dated 12
th
January 1945 from Tar Robinson.
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