A file of correspondence concerning the activities of the Political Warfare Executive (PWE). Topics of discussion in this file include an investigation of the leakage of the Italian civil disobedience manifesto to the press; arrangements for the transfer of PWE staff from Woburn to London; arrangements for collaboration between the PWE and the Special Operations Executive; an alleged order to German diplomats to cooperate with their Soviet counterparts; a transcript of a possibly treasonous conversation between a Russian and a Foreign Office employee; a dispute in which the Foreign office was accused of withholding information received from Belgium from the PWE; the difficulty of finding linguists for the Czech Section and the Polish-language propaganda broadcasts; and requests for PWE to be allowed to interview foreign nationals from occupied Europe entering the United Kingdom.
- Collection ID
- FO1093
- Conflict
- Second World War
- Countries
- Belgium Poland United Kingdom
- Document Reference
- FO 1093/171/2
- Document Types
- Report Correspondence
- File Reference
- FO 1093/171
- Identifier
- 10.1080/swwf.fo1093.0171.002
- Keywords
- Leakage Of Information British Intelligence Organisation Inter-services Cooperation German-soviet Relations Intelligence Distribution Communications Interception Security Treachery Linguists Propaganda Broadcast Services Personnel Intelligence Gathering Nazi-occupied Europe
- Languages
- English
- Organizations
- Foreign Office Ministry of Economic Warfare Permanent Under-Secretary's Department Political Warfare Executive
- Pages
- 37
- Persons Discussed
- Alexander Cadogan Anthony Eden Peter Loxley Patrick Reilly
- Published in
- United Kingdom
- Themes
- Intelligence Organization British Domestic Security Propaganda Censorship Psychological Warfare
