Key Information
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1944 Jul (Creation)
Level of description
File
Extent
1 file
Scope and content
Memoranda and related papers on SOE operations, organisation, personnel, policy and equipment in South Asia, South East Asia, East Asia, Australia and elsewhere. File includes: a letter to Taylor from Moshe Shertok, of the Jewish Agency for Palestine (later Moshe Sharett, Prime Minister of Israel, 1954-1955), enclosing copy correspondence between Shertok and Randolph Churchill on proposals to assist and train Jewish resistance fighters in eastern Europe; a letter from Taylor to Cdr Ian Fleming, Naval Intelligence, requesting assistance with the surreptitious acquisition of information on French Indochina (FIC) in Paris; memorandum on relations between the Globe News Agency and Reuters News Agency in India and the Middle East; letter from Taylor to Fleming concerning relations between SOE, SOA (Special Operations Australia) and the US High Command; letter from Taylor to ‘FO’ [G Young], concerning SOE and OSS (the US Office of Strategic Services) relations in Burma (Myanmar); discussion of camouflage provision in India; equipment and training for SOE naval operations, Australia; request for French submarines to operate off French Indochina; an exchange between Taylor and Hubertus van Mook, Acting Governor General of the Dutch East Indies concerning special forces operations in the South West Pacific Area (‘SWPA’) and the work of Maj Egerton Mott; a memorandum on the recruitment of Soviet POWs for work in France; memorandum on Operation Belief, to drop Francois de Langlade into French Indochina to make contact with Vichy French personnel sympathetic to the Allies, and the subsequent complaints from OSS; brief telegram on plans to arm Czech partisans, and consequent problems with the SAM Mission to the USSR.