File TAYLOR, GF 1/2 - Papers relating to South Africa, Jan-Feb 1943

Correspondence, memoranda, and reports relating to a visit to South Africa by Taylor (‘AD’), including: letter from ‘WS’ [Lt Col A W Smith], Cape Town, relating to concerns over the security and possible future of the SOE Mission in South Africa; correspondence and memoranda relating to co-operation with SIS (Secret Intelligence Service) in West Africa and the problematic behaviour of ‘DZ’ [Lt Col J S E Todd]; letters from ‘AD 4’ [Col Bickham Aldred Cowan Sweet-Escott], London, relating to recent events in London, North Africa, West Africa and the Middle East, and the Arab News Agency (ANA); correspondence concerning negotiations with SIS about SOE/SIS co-operation in southern Africa; correspondence on the deployment of an operative with expert knowledge of Hungary, named ‘Hindle’, in Cairo; reports and correspondence relating to Taylor's negotiations with FM Jan Smuts, Prime Minister of South Africa, on the development of the SOE East Africa Mission based in South Africa. Also a list of the names, code names and locations of present and former personnel of the SOE East Africa Mission, notes by Taylor on SOE hierarchy and organisation, and a report by ‘DFA’ to ‘D/Fin’, Chief Financial Officer, SOE [Wing Cdr John Venner], on the accounts of the SOE offices in Tehran and Baghdad.