File TAYLOR, GF 6/1 - Papers relating to SOE and clandestine activities in East Asia and South East Asia, Feb-Jun 1945

Correspondence, memoranda and reports after Taylor’s return from China, chiefly relating to planned operations in China, British-American co-operation in East and South East Asia (SEA), policy towards resistance groups in South East Asia and SOA (Special Operations Australia). File includes: a memo by ‘SO’ [Lord Selborne, Minister of Economic Warfare], on SOE and Allied relations in East Asia; correspondence on the failure of Operation Rimau (to sabotage Japanese shipping using submersible canoes); a memo by Maj W W Chapman on resistance in Burma; papers relating to Taylor’s planned visit to USA and Australia to discuss the future of the SOA; correspondence about Operation Robin (also known as Operation Platypus 1, to infiltrate SOA personnel into Borneo); correspondence about the possible appointment of Brigadier Eric Mockler-Ferryman as Head of SOA; memos on resistance and Chinese propaganda in Malaya; an organisational chart, ‘Proposed establishment, Far Eastern Directorate’.