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Jedburgh justice
Synonym of Jeddart justice
Operation Jedburgh
a clandestine operation during World War II in which three-man teams of operatives of the British Special Operations Executive, the U.S. Office of Strategic Services, the Free French Bureau central de renseignements et d'action ("Central Bureau of Intelligence and Operations") and the Dutch and Belgian armies in exile were dropped by parachute into occupied France, the Netherlands and Belgium.
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