File TAYLOR, GF 4/16 - Papers relating chiefly to SOE operations in South Asia and East Asia, Dec 1944

Letters, instructions and related papers chiefly concerning SOE operations and organisation in South Asia and East Asia. File includes: draft instructions for a forthcoming tour of China and India by Taylor (‘AD’), written by Taylor himself, covering a planned conference for SOE and OSS (the US Office of Strategic Services) during a visit to East Asia by Gen William Donovan, head of OSS, and the possible use of Operation Remorse (the raising of funds via covert currency transactions on the Chinese black market) for SOE operations aside from its financial activities; a letter concerning SOE/OSS co-operation in China, the planned control of all British and US clandestine operations in China by Gen Albert Wedermeyer (commander of US forces in China) and the possible future control of SOE by the British Foreign Secretary; a memorandum on the role of the ‘Deputy Director Operations Division (Irregular)’ or ‘DDOD(I)’ and special forces marine operations.