File TAYLOR, GF 4/8 - Papers relating to SOE operations in South Asia, South East Asia and East Asia, Apr 1944

Memoranda relating to SOE policy, organisation, personnel and equipment in South Asia, South East Asia and East Asia. File includes: memoranda on Operation Hornbill (to use Chinese junks and ‘Sleeping Beauty’ motorised submersible canoes to sabotage Japanese operations in South East Asia); a memorandum on working relations between SOE and OSS (the US Office of Strategic Services) in the Mediterranean; a 3pp report on Prince Capt Subha Svasti and the Free Siam Movement (FSM, also FTM, Free Thai Movement); notes on the necessity for senior SOE personnel to undertake local tours around regions; instructions and itinerary for a tour of India; a memorandum on the future merger of FELO (the Far Eastern Liaison Office, a propaganda and field intelligence unit in the South West Pacific) and SOA (Special Operations Australia).