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File identifier File type Content
D3-TNA-AIR-40-1933.pdf Record MI9 reports: statements of personnel who evaded capture.
D3-TNA-AIR-40-2450.pdf Record MI9 reports Far East.
D3-TNA-AIR-40-2451.pdf Record MI9 reports Far East.
D3-TNA-AVIA-12.pdf Document TNA catalogue description of series.
D3-TNA-AVIA-38.pdf Document TNA catalogue description of series.
D3-TNA-AVIA-38-80.pdf Record BPC Personnel.
D3-TNA-AVIA-38-115.pdf Record BPC Organisation.
D3-TNA-BT-87.pdf Document TNA catalogue description of series.
D3-TNA-BT-226-5024.pdf Record WILLS J.E.E: film director, less than 5K. Bankruptcy Cases, High Court Papers. Records of the Bankruptcy Department and Official Receivers Branch. (1938-1941). Was WILLS destitute when he joined SOE?.
D3-TNA-CAB-81-88.pdf Record Telephones: Security of Green and Federal Telephones.
D3-TNA-CAB-81-91.pdf Record Federal Telephone System – Security JIC: WO officers in need of secure telephone lines – red, green, black telephones.
D3-TNA-CAB-81-92.pdf Record JIC - Escape & Evasion Training: MI9 escapees – clothing.
D3-TNA-CAB-81-142.pdf Record Summary of Inter-Service Intelligence: Shortage of clothes/textiles in Germany and Italian embargo on sales of clothes.
D3-TNA-CAB-115-19.pdf Record Organisation in North America: British Purchasing Commission.
D3-TNA-CAB-121-105.pdf Record Strategic deception.
D3-TNA-CAB-121-224.pdf Record Camouflage.
D3-TNA-CAB-121-226.pdf Record Decoy schemes.
D3-TNA-CAB-158-2.pdf Record Security of Military Secrets within the MoS: Security measures for service department MoS.
D3-TNA-CAB-176-8.pdf Record Hitler’s Will: sewn into shoulder padding of coat.
D3-TNA-CAB-301-47.pdf Record Foreign Office and Secret Intelligence Service: General Correspondence: Mentions Mr E D ALSTON Assistant Director of Clothing and Textiles C.T.6 (c) 9 Park Place Leeds and C.T.6 secretary Miss A. E. WRIGHT S.S.4 Room S. 88 Shell Mex House (MoS) ‘special supplies’ working under Sir G.W TURNER. Letter to ‘Sir George’ dated 15 February 1944 requesting that MoS assist Combined Operations HQ with acquiring ‘miscellaneous items of equipment’ which ‘are essential to the successful execution of Small Scale Operations’. Names individual in charge of secret contracts in MoS - Mr C. S. GOAD.
D3-TNA-CAB-301-51.pdf Record Hanbury Williams report on the Special Operations Executive (SOE) (1942). June 1942 detailed and critical organisational analysis. Immensely important document. Required reading!
D3-TNA-CAB-301-52.pdf Record SOE: Review of Activities: p.31 of particular interest ‘supplies’ which notes that for small “off the shelf” purchases, contracts are placed through the MoS ‘with whom close contact is kept’. It goes onto to state that ‘a special organisation has been built up, in close contact with the needs of SOE, for this specific purpose, and it appears to us to function successfully. It would, we think, be wrong to jeopardise this ad hoc organisation by throwing it into the general machine of government procurement, in the more interests of uniformity...’.
D3-TNA-CAB-301-54.pdf Record SOE: Funding Applications for Operations: ISRB; Telephone charges; Camouflage; Repurposing The Thatched Barn for IRSB, incl WE (115) and costing.
D3-TNA-CAB-301-55.pdf Record SOE Accounts: We can do some cool calculations for how much money was spent on camouflage compared to other areas. Camouflage = Sanction LXV. (Also interesting for AOS re. ME and Turkey).
D3-TNA-CAB-301-58.pdf Record Special Operations Executive (SOE): contracts through MoS: Costings; also mentions ALSTON of C.T.6 Ministry of Supply re. tobacco items supplied and possibly raising questions from auditors. Sir George TURNER MoS mentioned and letter to him. Reports mention agent clothing, Japanese clothing supplies requested/dropped etc. Mr GOAD mentioned – contracts.
D3-TNA-CAB-301-65.pdf Record Scheme to obtain rubber (and drugs) from Japanese occupied territories: Pages on rubber and bristles copied and a few pages on drugs smuggled by SOE. Inference that SOE smuggled these items from Far East to sell back to the MoS and Ministry of Production.
D3-TNA-CAB-301-72.pdf Record Purchase of specialised equipment in the USA.
D3-TNA-CAB-301-76.pdf Record Romac Radio Corporation Ltd: Polish High Speed Transmitter: Mr GOAD mentioned! Special supply.
D3-TNA-CAB-301-80.pdf Record General Funding of Intelligence: Telephones and ISRB.
D3-TNA-CAB-301-83.pdf Record Financing of British Security Coordination (BSC): Reimbursement of monies to MoS from MI6.Indication of how MoS used as a conduit for secret monies and details of MoS personnel involved in this process.
D3-TNA-CAB-301-102_.pdf Record Coordination of British wartime missions in Washington.
D3-TNA-FO-115.pdf Document Foreign Office: Embassy and Consulates, United States of America: General Correspondence. TNA catalogue description of series.
D3-TNA-FO-115-3768.pdf Record North American Supplies, British Purchasing Commission: British Purchasing Commission Directory: list of employees: registrations and notifications of staff to the State Department.
D3-TNA-FO-954-24A-172.pdf Record Special Operations Executive: General Ismay Minute to Prime Minister Penetration of Special Operations Executive organisation in Holland Proposal that Special Operations Executive and Special Intelligence Service be under the same minister.
D3-TNA-FO-954-24A-193.pdf Record Special Operations Executive: From Lord Selborne. Use of C.G.T. to extend the new Special Operations Executive sabotage technique.
D3-TNA-FO-1093-13.pdf Record Conversations between Hess and various officials, records, translations, manuscript notes: Hess clothes.
D3-TNA-FO-1093-155.pdf Record Friction between SOE and SIS.
D3-TNA-FO-1093-163.pdf Record Subversion: Report by Gladwyn JEBB on SOE.
D3-TNA-FO-1093-175.pdf Record Agents (British and Allied): Post-War Claims & Awards: MI9 – claims for those who provided clothing to escapers.
D3-TNA-FO-1093-187.pdf Record Decorations 1945: One letter and one draft – award to ALSTON for his wartime services. Official letter signed by ‘Alexander CADOGAN’.
D3-TNA-FO-1093-193.pdf Record Future of Secret Services: Part 1; Lord HANKEY’s Review of the Security and Intelligence Services: Security arrangement of MoS industrial firms noted that the G.S Branch is in touch with ‘1,300’ such firms! Note on press and journalist payment included in this. Few pages from ‘C’ citing example of getting diamonds out of France for the MoS.
D3-TNA-FO-1093-198.pdf Record Future of Secret Services: Part 6; Future of SOE: Very nice comments about ‘if we adopt the old “coat and cloth” formula’ etc. with regards to survival of SOE 1945.
D3-TNA-FO-1093-211.pdf Record 'C' (SIS): operational schemes; general: diamonds and French clothing.
D3-TNA-FO-1093-250.pdf Record Wartime Intelligence Activities: South America: Cotton purchases by MoS – problems.
D3-TNA-FO-1093-252.pdf Record War: Arrest of the Times Correspondent Dudley CLARKE in Madrid: Disguise; cross dressing?
D3-TNA-FO-1093-279.pdf Record 'C', Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS): miscellaneous correspondence.
D3-TNA-HO-405-45567.pdf Record ROSENBERG, Vera May aka ROSENBERG, Vera May ATKINS.
D3-TNA-HS-6-90.pdf Record FORTINBRAS mission: briefing notes on parachute landing, clothing, etc.
D3-TNA-HS-6-568.pdf Record Circuit and mission reports and interrogations: Cammaerts to Cruzel. These are alphabetical files in a series of agents' reports. Should really have examined entire series!
D3-TNA-HS-6-662_Orig.pdf Record Operation VIVACIOUS: to sabotage Bruno Hintze precision engineering works in Berlin. Part 1. Courtesy Kippax.
D3-TNA-HS-6-663_Orig.pdf Record Operation VIVACIOUS: to sabotage Bruno Hintze precision engineering works in Berlin. Part 2. Courtesy Kippax.
D3-TNA-HS-7-15.pdf Record D FIN/2 section: FANY pay and allowances; properties section.

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