File TAYLOR, GF 4/14 - Papers relating chiefly to SOE operations in South East Asia and East Asia, Oct 1944

Memoranda and related papers concerning SOE operations, organisation, personnel, policy and equipment in South East Asia, East Asia and elsewhere. File includes: draft briefing notes for Prime Minister Winston Churchill on SOA (Special Operations Australia), its relations with SOE, NEFIS (Netherlands Forces Intelligence Service) and the US high command in SWPA (South West Pacific Area); notes on the present and possible future activities of the British Army Aid Group (BAAG) in South East China; a memorandum on the decision to hand over some Russian POWs to Soviet control, and the resulting attempted suicide of one POW; telegrams relating to personnel and recruitment, including the use of Dutch operatives for service in East Asia.