File TAYLOR, GF 4/10 - Papers relating to SOE operations in South Asia, South East Asia, East Asia and Australia, Jun 1944

Memoranda and related papers on SOE operations, resources and requirements, in South Asia, South East Asia, East Asia, Australia and elsewhere. File includes: memorandum on the organisation of naval sections in India and Australia; memoranda and telegrams relating to the planning and equipping of Operation Hornbill (to use Chinese junks and ‘Sleeping Beauty’ motorised submersible canoes to sabotage Japanese operations in South East Asia); memoranda on the possible impact of the Allied invasion of France upon Japanese policy in French Indochina (FIC); negotiations with OSS (the US Office of Strategic Services) over operations in Burma (Myanmar), and OSS China’s infringement of the agreed boundary line between OSS and SOE spheres of operation at the Taping River.