Key Information
Reference code
TAYLOR, GF 4/6
Title
Papers relating to SOE operations in South East Asia and elsewhere, Feb 1944
Date(s)
- 1944 Feb (Creation)
Level of description
File
Extent
1 file
Scope and content
Memoranda and notes relating to SOE policy, organisation, protocols, equipment, personnel and operations in East Asia and South East Asia (‘SEA’) and elsewhere. File includes memoranda on Maryland (SOE operations in Italy), including the deployment of Soviet MKVD personnel in Italy; telegrams on diamond smuggling; problems with the potential SOE deployment of Soviet POWs in Axis territory; notes on the relationship between SOA (Special Operations Australia) and SOE; training schedule and notes for Operation Oblivion, to drop Chinese-Canadian agents into Japanese-occupied China.