A file of miscellaneous reports, correspondence, and memoranda concerning intelligence gathering by the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) in the first half of the Second World War. Subjects discussed in this file include intelligence reports from a variety of informants on future Axis strategy, including alleged plans for the invasion of Scandinavia, the Low Countries, France, and Corfu; conditions inside Germany; German propaganda and its effect on German prisoners of war in Britain; conditions in occupied France; anti-British public opinion in Egypt; Turkish neutrality; German government forging of the Spanish currency; alleged treachery by the French foreign minister Pierre Laval; the dissemination to the British of false intelligence by the Italians; German intentions in the Balkans; and Italian entry into the war. The file also includes reviews of the reliability of intelligence furnished by several agents, and discussion of breaches of security by British personnel.