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Special Operations Executive (SOE): Funding Applications for Operations

9 Jan 1942

A file of correspondence and memoranda concerning the funding of operations by the Special Operations Executive (SOE). Among the topics of discussion in this file are the organisation and funding of SOE; the funding of a revolt against the Antonescu government in Romania; secret radio communications with agents in enemy territory, and the production of radio sets; the purchase of shipping for intelligence operations in the Red Sea and Mediterranean; the transportation of gold to resistance forces in Yugoslavia; the funding of subversive operations in China; the development of secret weapons such as the Welman craft; intelligence gathering and guerrilla warfare on the Burmese border; the transport of supplies and extraction of agents from Greece; reports on SOE finances and expenditure; foreign currency transactions; the production of SOE armaments and equipment in America; the bribery of officials in Palestine; and a correspondence discussing accusations of financial malpractice in SOE.
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Collection ID
CAB301
Conflict
Second World War
Countries
Afghanistan Albania Angola Australia Austria Belgium Bulgaria Burma Ceylon Chile China Corsica Crete Cyprus Czechoslovakia Denmark Egypt England Estonia France Germany Gibraltar Gold Coast Greece Holland Hungary India Indochina Iran Iraq Italy Japan Malaya Mauritius Mexico Morocco Netherlands Norway Palestine Persia Poland Portugal Romania Russia Siam Sicily Singapore Somaliland Spain Sudan Sweden Switzerland Syria Thailand Tunisia Turkey United States of America Uruguay Yemen Yugoslavia
Document Reference
CAB 301/54/2
Document Types
Correspondence Memorandum
File Reference
CAB 301/54
Identifier
10.1080/swwf.cab301.0054.002
Keywords
Intelligence Funding Finances Bribery Politics Coup D’état Special Operations Equipment British Intelligence Organisation Personnel Agents Wireless Communications Secrecy Training Escape Nazi-occupied Europe Supply Drops Shipping Transportation Camouflage Military Supplies Pensions Currencies Weapons Production Armaments Lend-lease Telegraph Communications Telephone Communications Recruitment Propaganda Casualties Air Raid Precautions Secret Weapons Diplomatic Missions Liaison American Intelligence Services Anti-nazi Resistance Intelligence Gathering Guerrilla Warfare Broadcast Services Official Histories
Languages
English
Organizations
Chiefs of Staff Foreign Office Joint Staff Mission Ministry of Economic Warfare Naval Intelligence Division Office of Strategic Services Political Warfare Executive Special Operations Executive United Nations
Pages
516
Persons Discussed
Edward Bridges Herbert Brittain Thomas Bromley Alexander Cadogan Victor Cavendish-Bentinck Dwight Eisenhower Peter Loxley Stewart Menzies Roundell Palmer Duncan Sandys Horace Wilson
Published in
United Kingdom
Themes
Intelligence Funding Intelligence Organization Intelligence Operations

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