A file of correspondence concerning the funding of intelligence organisation in Turkey. Subjects covered in the file include the inadequate security of the telephone exchange in the British Embassy in Istanbul in July 1942 and the cost of installing a new automatic exchange, the need for Turkish Lira to finance Special Operations Executive (SOE) and Secret Intelligence Service (MI5) operations in Turkey, the need to avoid acquiring Turkish currency through the black market, and the administrative responsibility for these expenditures.
- Collection ID
- CAB301
- Conflict
- Second World War
- Countries
- Turkey
- Document Reference
- CAB 301/95/2
- Document Types
- Correspondence
- File Reference
- CAB 301/95
- Identifier
- 10.1080/swwf.cab301.0095.002
- Keywords
- Embassies Consular Intelligence Sources Secrecy Security Telephone Communications Equipment Communications Finances Intelligence Funding Currencies Military Intelligence Naval Intelligence Turkish Neutrality Black Market
- Languages
- English
- Organizations
- Foreign Office Security Service
- Pages
- 17
- Persons Discussed
- Herbert Brittain Peter Loxley Stewart Menzies
- Published in
- United Kingdom
- Themes
- Intelligence Funding
