File TAYLOR, GF 5/2 - Papers relating to SOE operations in China and South East Asia, 1-20 Jan 1945

Correspondence, notes, reports and memoranda, relating chiefly to the visit of Gen William Donovan to China, India, and South East Asia (SEA), for meetings with Gen Albert Wedemeyer (Chief of Staff to Chiang Kai Shek) on increased clandestine operations in China, and meetings with Lord Mountbatten (Supreme Allied Commander South East Asia, SACSEA) on Allied intelligence in China and South East Asia Command (SEAC). File includes: letters from ‘AD4’ [Col Bickham Aldred Cowan Sweet-Escott], reporting on events at SOE London Headquarters and commenting on proposed SOE activity in China; letters from ‘CD’ [Maj Gen Colin McVean Gubbins, Head of SOE] about a proposed Sino-British resistance force in China; note by Lt Col Ambler on planned SOE activity in Sumatra; memo by ‘AD 4’ [Col Bickham Aldred Cowan Sweet-Escott] on Force 136 in East Asia; correspondence about French Indochina (FIC, now Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos), including a letter from French Admiral Raymond Albert Fenard to the Combined Chiefs of Staff on the French Resistance in FIC; correspondence about SOA (Special Operations Australia), its poor relations with South West Pacific Area (SWPA) Headquarters and with the British Government.