Ka kammala wannan magana: Bayan haka, bayan da aka gano yana da cutar kumburi mai tsanani, ya samu aiki a Alkahira a matsayin ADC ga Ministan Gwamnati, Richard Casey. A tsakiyar 1943 an sake furta Hastings ya dace, kuma ya shiga SOE. Aikinsa na farko shi ne ya raka Faransawa-Amurkawa
sauka a kudancin Faransa. Ya isa sabon 'yanci na Paris a watan Agustan 1944, sannan aka sauke shi tare da mai ba da rediyo da mai fassara a bayan layin abokan gaba a cikin Apennines a matsayin babban jami'in sadarwa ga' yan tawayen Italiya.