Item WOODHOUSE 1/5 - Correspondence, Feb 1943, between Middle East Command and the British Military Mission to Greece

Correspondence between Middle East Command and British Military Mission to Greece, including: updates on Operation HARLING (British Military Mission to Greece); updates on political situation in Greece; instructions from Middle East Command; report of restoration of Gorgopotamos Viaduct; requests for four more sapper officers and supplies; list of Greek partisan (andartes) groups with numbers of men; intelligence from Middle East Command on Allied strategy in Mediterranean including invasion of Sicily, 26-27 Feb 1943; communications on Charalambos Koutsoyiannopoulos, (code name Prometheus), secret agent in Athens, including news of his capture, 2 Feb 1943; Italian propaganda; contact with Maj Kostopulos, partisan (andartes) leader; first contact and assessment of Andreas Tzimas (code name Evmaios, real name Vasilis Samariniotis), EAM (National Liberation Front) Central Committee member); contacts with Albanian and Yugoslav guerrillas; Christopher Montague Woodhouse's report on visit to Athens; meeting with Col Stefanos Sarafis, ELAS (National People's Liberation Army) leader; 'chancy but possible' plan for destruction of Asopos bridge, 16 Feb 1943; correspondence on Central Committee EAM's wish to send representatives to the Middle East, 21 Feb 1943; long term policy of British Military Mission and strategy for Middle East Command, 26 Feb 1943. 64 items.