Key Information
Reference code
TAYLOR, GF 1/3/1
Title
Telegrams from SOE Headquarters, London, Jan-Mar 1943
Date(s)
- 1943 Jan - Mar (Creation)
Level of description
File
Extent
1 file
Scope and content
Telegrams to Taylor (‘AD’) from SOE Headquarters, London, on topics including: the situation in southern Africa; surveillance of Axis activities in Portuguese East Africa (PEA); a meeting between the British Ambassador to Lisbon and the Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio de Oliveira Salazar concerning recent attacks on Allied shipping off the coast of Portuguese East Africa; a meeting with FM Jan Smuts, Prime Minister of South Africa, concerning SOE activities in the region; relations between SOE and SIS (Secret Intelligence Service) in southern Africa; Taylor’s proposals for future operations in southern Africa. See also 1/3/2 for Taylor’s replies.