 The de Greef's "handyman," Albert Johnson, "B", escorted 13 groups of escapees across the border into Spain from 1942 to 1944.Andre de Jongh accompanied evacuees across the border 32 times according to one calculation.Several Basque guides worked with the Comet Line, the most competent being Florentino Goikoetxea, a smuggler and a fugitive from Franco's Fascist government, who could find his way across the Pyrenees at night without difficulty.