Item DOBRSKI 4 - Instructions and memos, 1940-1943, relating to SOE operations in Italy

Memoranda and directives relating to activities of Special Operations Executive (SOE) in Italy, comprising guidelines for subverting Italian citizens by infiltrating agents to Italy from Switzerland, 24 Aug 1940; 'Hints for RAF personnel landing in Italy', recommending methods of escape from Italy overland, by sea and by air, undated; memorandum from (George) Hugh (Nicholas) Seton-Watson, General Headquarters, Middle East (Special Forces), on necessity of gathering information from other British Government departments on potential Italian anti-fascists, both in Italy and elsewhere, for subversive purposes, 17 Feb 1942; memorandum from Seton-Watson, deprecating lack of information on Italy found by other departments, 13 Mar 1942; instructions entitled 'PALLINODE' (author, section and recipient not given) for SOE wireless operator to liaise with Italian resistance groups in Trieste and Venice, 6 Feb 1943; draft instructions (author, section and recipient not given) to SOE officer to work under AD 3 (Christopher Grey Tennant, 2nd Baron Glenconner) at Cairo, Egypt, recruiting SOE agents to infiltrate Italy, provide intelligence on Italy and establish lines of communication and propaganda into Italy, undated; memoranda from 'D/H 113' to 'J', regarding progress of recruitment of Italian POWs as SOE agents and difficulties with General Headquarters, Middle East, over the same, 1 Apr and 17 May 1943. 1 file