A file containing the Hanbury Williams report on the Special Operations Executive (SOE), produced during the Second World War. The report describes the organisation of SOE and its scope of activities; the need for reorganisation, and the difficulty of doing so, especially in SOE subsections abroad; the difficulty of recruiting high-quality personnel; the perceptions of SOE’s usefulness amongst other departments of the government; the value of SOE’s work to the war effort; SOE’s role overseas, and relations with Allied countries; communications problems; the financing of SOE; the equipment used by the organisation; and the number of personnel employed in the various branches.
- Collection ID
- CAB301
- Conflict
- Second World War
- Countries
- Azores Canada China England France Gibraltar India Malta Portugal Portuguese East Africa Russia Spain Sweden Switzerland United Kingdom United States of America
- Document Reference
- CAB 301/51/2
- Document Types
- Correspondence Report
- File Reference
- CAB 301/51
- Identifier
- 10.1080/swwf.cab301.0051.002
- Keywords
- Information Sharing British Intelligence Organisation Special Operations Intelligence Services Responsibilities Inter-services Cooperation Allies Communications Finances Equipment
- Languages
- English
- Organizations
- Chiefs of Staff Foreign Office Joint Planning Committee Ministry of Economic Warfare Political Warfare Executive Secret Intelligence Service Security Service Special Operations Executive
- Pages
- 53
- Persons Discussed
- Roundell Palmer
- Published in
- United Kingdom
- Themes
- Intelligence Organization
