Transcripts of anti-fascist broadcasts on Radio Jerusalem, 1942-1943
Transcripts of British anti-fascist propaganda broadcasts to Italian citizens via Radio Jerusalem, mainly concentrating on themes of sacrifice of Italians on the North African and Eastern European fronts, and the exploitation of Italian people and resources by Germany. In Italian. 1 file, 26 items
Training memo on infiltrating German workers, [1941-1942]
Special Operations Executive (SOE) memorandum (section, source or author not given) entitled 'Infiltration of agents into Germany among workmen', outlining points of grievance to be used by SOE agents disguised as foreign workers in Germany in subverting German workers. With accompanying typescript notes on propaganda themes to subvert and discourage German workers, instructions for sabotaging factories, and methods for passive resistance and acts of sabotage in railways and motorised transport. 1 file, 10pp
Telegrams from the Foreign Office, Jan-Feb 1944, about SOE operations in Greece
Telegram correspondence from the Foreign Office to Reginald Wildig Allen Leeper, British Ambassador to Greece, regarding Foreign Office concerns over Operation NOAH'S ARK (harrying of German forces withdrawing from Greece by Special Operations Executive, Allied Air Forces and partisan forces), relating to proposed reduction of guerrilla activity prior to commencement of NOAH'S ARK and unacceptability of a Greek Commander-in-Chief. 1 file, 2 items
Surrender document for Italian forces on the island of Kefallinia, Greece, Sep 1944
Instrument of unconditional surrender of a battalion of Italian Auxiliary troops and Italian Naval troops under the command of Italian Capt Renso Apollonio on Kefallinia, Greece, to Lts 'S Bug' and 'K Moth' of the Allied Military Mission. 1p
SOE training manuals, 1941-1944
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; education of civilians in passive resistance and simple sabotage; intelligence gathering; planning and methods of attack; means of German occupying forces in maintaining security, controlling civil populations and conducting searches, raids and interrogations; German counter espionage methods; organisation of the Nazi Party, German Police, German Army, SS and Luftwaffe; techniques for production of anti-German propaganda in occupied countries; codes and cyphers; secret inks; railway sabotage; fieldcraft; training exercises to be undertaken. With additional manuscript notes and glosses by Dobrski; published illustrations of Germany Army uniforms and rank insignia. 1 file, 262pp
SOE reports and memos, [1941-1944]
Section of SOE training manual, Jan-Aug 1944
Part of training manual for Special Operations Executive (SOE) personnel, comprising typescript summaries of lectures on establishing cover and alibis in occupied territory; countering interrogations; conducting and countering surveillance; precautions for wireless transmission; organising and recruiting agents; communications; German counter espionage methods; organisation of German and French Police, the Nazi Party in Germany and in neo-Nazi bodies in France; methods for recognition of German troops. Extensive revisions from 1941 version. 1 file, 73pp
Satirical memo about SOE bureaucracy, [1941-1942]
Undated Special Operations Executive (SOE) memorandum (section, source or author not given) entitled 'Security as she is done - MO4 version', comprising satirical account of a mythical agent employed by MO4 (SOE Cairo, Egypt) whose employment is marked by bungled bureaucracy. 1p
Revised SOE training manual, Jan 1942 - Jun 1943
Training manual for Special Operations Executive (SOE) personnel, comprising typescript summaries of lectures on establishing cover and alibis in occupied territoy; countering interrogations; planning and methods of attack; German counter espionage methods; conducting and countering surveillance; organising and recruiting agents; communications; organisation of the Nazi Party, German Police, German Army, SS and Luftwaffe; training exercises to be undertaken; fieldcraft; techniques for production of anti-German propaganda in occupied countries. Extensive revisions from 1941 version. 1 file, 130pp
Revised SOE training manual, Jan 1942
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
Cutting (newspaper title not given) entitled 'Nazi trap for British agents', comprising review by H D Ziman of London calling North Pole by H J Giskes (William Kimber, London, 1953) on 'North Pole', the penetration of the Special Operations Executive (SOE) in the Netherlands by the Abwehr, 1942-1944. 1p
Reports on personnel of SOE Force 133 Headquarters, Jan-Oct 1944
Confidential reports on officers of Headquarters, Force 133 (Special Operations Executive, Cairo, Egypt), employed as General Staff Officers grades 2 and 3, Staff Captains and Staff Lieutenants on Force 133 General Staff and Force 133 Eastern Mediterranean Group, giving brief details of employment, personality, technical and military qualities, and execution of duties. 1 file, 54 reports
Subsection of file GSD (85) entitled 'Special operations', of Force 133 (Special Operations Executive, Cairo, Egypt), containing copy report by Maj Patrick Michael Leigh Fermor, SOE Crete, on the operation which he commanded to kidnap German Maj Gen Heinrich Kreipe, Commanding Officer of German 22 'Sebastopol' Div on Crete, Apr 1944. 6pp
Subsection of file GSD (85) entitled 'Special operations', of Force 133 (Special Operations Executive, Cairo, Egypt), containing memorandum from G (SO) Force 133 (Dobrski) to Brig Karl Vere Barker-Benfield, Commanding Officer Force 133, 14 Mar 1944, entitled 'Force 133 special operations', reviewing recent reorganisation of Force 133 and progress of its activities in propaganda, liaison with the Political Warfare Executive, subversion of German troops, naval sabotage and sabotage on the River Danube, results achieved, and objectives in the Aegean, Crete, Greece, Hungary, Rumania, Bulgaria and Turkey. 23pp With memorandum from G (SO), Force 133, to Barker-Benfield, entitled 'Subversion plan for Greece', 6 Apr 1944, containing proposals for fomenting rebellion among German units in the Peloponnese. 2pp
Report, Jun 1945, on SOE activities in Greece, 1942-1945
Typescript entitled 'Report on Special Operations Executive (SOE) activities in Greece and the islands of the Aegean Sea' by Dobrski for the Joint Operational Staff, Middle East, comprising terms of reference of SOE; results achieved; SOE participation in strategic and joint operations; special operations (counter-demolition missions and subversion of enemy troops); equipment, transportation and support utilised; administrative and political difficulties encountered; summaries of military missions, locations, casualties and damage inflicted, including reports on the SOE missions to demolish the Gorgopotamos Viaduct (25-26 Nov 1942) and Asopos Viaduct (20-21 Jun 1943), near Thermopylae, Greece; reports on SOE activities in Crete and the kidnapping of German Maj Gen Heinrich Kreipe, Commanding Officer of German 22 'Sebastopol' Div by SOE on Crete (Apr 1944); intelligence gathering and post liberation duties. 253pp
Report, Jun 1941, on the possible use of inland waterways for SOE operations
Typescript report by Special Operations Executive (SOE) officer (section, source or author not given) following a visit to the Grand Union Canal at Tring, Hertfordshire, on the viability of canals and inland waterways for SOE operations. 2pp
Report, Jun 1941, on the possible use of a floating explosive mine and other SOE activity
Typescript report by Special Operations Executive (SOE) officer (section, source or author not given) on his journey to Milford Haven, Dyfed, to investigate the suitability of the 'R' or Rhine Mine, a floating mine for use in inland waterways, for SOE operations; the possibility of placing an SOE agent as a deck hand in a trawler crew based at Milford Haven to counter correspondence passing between Eire and Continental Europe; recommendations for closer liaison with the Royal Navy and RAF for purposes of research and security against enemy agents. 2pp
Report, 1945, on SOE operations on the island of Crete
Typescript entitled 'Final report on Special Operations Executive (SOE) missions in Crete, 1941-1945' by Lt Col Tom J Dunbabin, SOE Field Commander in Crete, 1944-1945, comprising detailed narrative of SOE and Cretan guerrilla operations, and containing appendices of chronological table of principal events; list of atrocities committed by German forces on Crete, 1941-1945, with officers and units responsible; details of British SOE personnel in Crete, 1942-1945. With 'General survey of Crete, 1940-1945' by Maj Jack Smith-Hughes, SOE Liaison Officer, describing principal Cretan resistance personalities. 120pp
Personal diary of Major John Mulgan, liaison officer, 1944
Pocket diary of Maj John Mulgan, Force 133 (Special Operations Executive, Greece), containing brief daily entries on his activities liaising with Greek partisans, 19 Jan-8 Nov 1944. 1 item