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Was Frantisek Moravec aboard HMS Edinburgh?

A research question tentatively identifies a Czechoslovak colonel connected with HMS Edinburgh as intelligence chief Frantisek Moravec.

Question

Was the Czechoslovak colonel associated with HMS Edinburgh Frantisek Moravec, and what was he doing there?

Short answer

The name appears to match, but the identification and the purpose of his accompanying staff were still under research.

Notes

A viewer asks for more information about the Czechoslovak colonel mentioned in an earlier discussion of HMS Edinburgh. The research is unfinished, but the officer appears to have been aboard with a staff rather than alone. Later, a viewer proposes Frantisek Moravec, chief of intelligence for the Czechoslovak government-in-exile, and the name appears to match the research notes. The identification remains explicitly provisional, and the unresolved question is what the accompanying staff were doing.