File TAYLOR, GF 4/12 - Papers relating chiefly to SOE operations in South East Asia, East Asia and South Asia, Aug 1944

Papers relating chiefly to SOE operations in South East Asia, East Asia and South Asia, Aug 1944
Memoranda and related papers concerning SOE operations, organisation, personnel, policy and equipment in South East Asia, East Asia and South Asia. File includes: a memorandum on Operation Belief (to drop Francois de Langlade into French Indochina to make contact with Vichy French personnel sympathetic to the Allies), its political implications, and the need to avoid questions over the post-war status of French Indochina; papers relating to the deployment of Soviet POWs to subvert Russians serving with German forces, to work with the French Resistance, and to work in locating secret weapons; correspondence relating to personnel and training for ‘Sleeping Beauty’ motorised submersible canoes; draft letter from ‘CD’ to Adm Lord Mountbatten concerning the relationship between South East Asia Command (SEAC) and SOE China; notes on the acquisition of Japanese Army uniforms in Burma (Myanmar) to aid the production of accurate copies; letters by Taylor on proposals to transfer SOE ‘Jedburgh’ teams from France to South East Asia for possible deployment in Burma (Myanmar); a memorandum on Operation Oblivion, to drop Chinese-Canadian agents into Japanese-occupied China.