A file of reports, correspondence, and memoranda concerning Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) operational schemes in the Second World War. Amongst the schemes discussed in this file are the organisation of a revolt amongst the Vichy French troops in North Africa; an attempt to persuade the neutral United States of America to detain Italian shipping in port; the sending of agents to France to gather intelligence; the creation of a fund to be used to bribe German merchant ship captains to surrender their vessels; the extraction of French diamond-cutters from occupied France; and the sabotage of Italian ships anchored in Mexican waters.
- Collection ID
- FO1093
- Conflict
- Second World War
- Countries
- Algeria Canada England France Germany Gibraltar Italy Malta Morocco Russia Soviet Union Spain Switzerland Tunisia United Kingdom United States of America
- Document Reference
- FO 1093/211/2
- Document Types
- Memorandum Correspondence Report
- File Reference
- FO 1093/211
- Identifier
- 10.1080/swwf.fo1093.0211.002
- Keywords
- Shipping Subversion Special Operations Intelligence Funding Sabotage Neutrality Diplomatic Signals Cyphers Air Intelligence British Intelligence Organisation Agents French Armed Forces Vichy Regime Intelligence Gathering Bribery
- Languages
- English
- Organizations
- Foreign Office Permanent Under-Secretary's Department Secret Intelligence Service
- Pages
- 81
- Persons Discussed
- Herbert Brittain Archibald Clark Kerr Francis Davidson Charles de Gaulle Gladwyn Jebb Peter Loxley
- Published in
- United Kingdom
- Themes
- Intelligence Operations Surveillance
