File TAYLOR, GF 4/5 - Papers relating chiefly to SOE operations in East Asia and South East Asia, Jan 1944

Memoranda and related papers concerning SOE policy, organisation, protocols, equipment, personnel and operations in East Asia and South East Asia (‘SEA’) and elsewhere. File includes; a telegram from Taylor (‘AD’) on the work of the [secretly British-run] radio station at Sharq-El-Adna, broadcasting pro-Allied propaganda in Arabic; memoranda on the establishment of a China Mission; memorandum by Taylor on a recent meeting with actor/US naval officer Douglas Fairbanks Jr concerning Fairbanks’ proposals for special forces units [‘Beach Jumpers’] to create diversionary deceptive beach landings for Allied amphibious assaults; telegram on the need for personnel able to undertake covert political activity in Iraq; telegram on training and support for local partisans in Yugoslavia; memoranda on equipment required for operations in East Asia, South Asia and Australia; memorandum on British relations with Siam (Thailand); memorandum on a proposed restructuring for SOE Asia and SOE Middle East; memoranda by Taylor on the impact of decisions made at the recent Allied conference at Cairo (codenamed Sextant) upon SOE operations in South East Asia and in China; brief report on Operation GUSTAVUS, to establish an intelligence network in Malaya and Singapore.