Key Information
Reference code
DOBRSKI 1/2
Title
Revised SOE training manual, Jan 1942
Date(s)
- 1942 Jan (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent
1 file, 138pp
Scope and content
Training manual for Special Operations Executive (SOE) personnel, comprising typescript summaries of lectures on guerrilla warfare; activities during first 48 hours of arrival in the field; recruiting agents and informants; establishing cover and communications; intelligence gathering; planning and methods of attack; observation and surveillance; means of police and German occupying forces in maintaining security, controlling civil populations and conducting searches, raids and interrogations; German counter espionage methods; techniques for production of anti-German propaganda in occupied countries; subversion of German occupying forces; codes and cyphers; secret inks. Extensive revisions from 1941 version. 1 file, 138pp