War: General, Including Contacts with Enemy and Other Nationals; Invasion of Sicily; Service Attaches from Neutral Countries; Disinformation

A file of memoranda, correspondence, and directives covering secrecy and security during the Second World War, including the secrecy of the planning for the invasions of Sicily and Normandy. Topics covered in this file include a report summarising remarks made by a Turkish journalist in Cairo claiming that a plot against Churchill was being planned with American backing; instructions to embassy staff in neutral countries to avoid contact with enemy nationals; discussion of the difficulties caused by this order; complaints that the British representative in Lisbon was associating with his Hungarian counterpart; discussion of an intercepted Japanese diplomatic signal from Stockholm suggesting that a Swedish official had disclosed details of the forthcoming invasion of Sicily; complaints about neutral attachés by Winston Churchill; consideration of the future of the Political Warfare Executive after the war; and a discussion of cover plans for the invasion of Normandy.