A file of reports, memoranda, and correspondence concerning the organisation and activities of the Political Warfare Executive (PWE), which supervised the Special Operations Executive (SOE). Topics of discussion in this file include the reorganisation of the PWE; ministerial control over the PWE; a debate over responsibility between departments for the distribution of propaganda; SOE operations including sabotage targets in occupied Europe; monthly reports on the effects of British propaganda in Europe, organised by country and including details of the political situation in each country; the maintenance of secrecy for SOE; the financing of the PWE; and complaints about press publicity given to PWE staff as a threat to the operational secrecy.
- Collection ID
- FO1093
- Conflict
- Second World War
- Countries
- Australia Belarus Belgium Bulgaria Burma China Corsica Crete Croatia Czechoslovakia Denmark Dutch East Indies England Finland France Germany Great Britain Greece Holland Hungary India Iraq Ireland Italy Japan Korea Libya Luxembourg Madagascar Malta Netherlands Northern Ireland Norway Palestine Peru Poland Romania Russia Scotland Serbia Singapore Spain Sweden Switzerland Syria Thailand Third Reich Turkey Ukraine United States of America Vichy France West Germany Yugoslavia
- Document Reference
- FO 1093/153/2
- Document Types
- Memorandum Correspondence Report
- File Reference
- FO 1093/153
- Identifier
- 10.1080/swwf.fo1093.0153.002
- Keywords
- British Intelligence Organisation Political Warfare Intelligence Services Responsibilities Propaganda Nazi-occupied Europe Special Operations Propaganda Leaflets Sabotage Industry Public Morale Press Reports Secrecy
- Languages
- English
- Organizations
- Chiefs of Staff Foreign Office Geheime Staatspolizei Ministry of Economic Warfare Political Warfare Executive Security Service United Nations Permanent Under-Secretary's Department
- Pages
- 89
- Persons Discussed
- Edward Bridges Alexander Cadogan Winston Churchill Anthony Eden Charles de Gaulle Hermann Göring Adolf Hitler Ivone Kirkpatrick Peter Loxley Desmond Morton Roundell Palmer Phillipe Pétain Erwin Rommel Orme Sargent William Strang
- Published in
- United Kingdom
- Themes
- Intelligence Organization Intelligence Operations
