File TAYLOR, GF 4/13 - Papers relating chiefly to SOE operations in South East Asia and East Asia, Sep 1944

Memoranda and related papers concerning SOE operations, organisation, personnel, policy and equipment in South East Asia, East Asia and elsewhere. File includes: notes for discussion at a conference of Directors of Military Intelligence; notes on British policy towards French Indochina; a memorandum on the attitude of South East Asia Command (SEAC) and the British government towards future SOE activities in Siam (Thailand); correspondence concerning allegations against SOE China made by Gen William Donovan, Director of OSS (the US Office of Strategic Services); an account by Taylor of his SOE service in the Balkans and Greece, 1940, including the loss of his files at sea after the Allied evacuation from Greece, 1941; a memorandum on the present and possible future status of SOE China; telegrams on problems with Operation Hornbill (for amphibious sabotage operations in South East Asia); an account of the development of SOE sea transport in Europe and Asia.