SPECIAL OPERATIONS EXECUTIVE, 1940-1946:
SUBVERSION AND SABOTAGE DURING WORLD WAR II
Series One: SOE Operations in Western Europe
Part 2: France: Political and Planning Files, Circuits and Missions, 1940-1947
(Public Record Office Class HS 6/308-470)
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HS 6/308: 1940-1945 - Her Majestys Government: relations with French governing authorities (Folder 1)
HS 6/309: 1940-1941 - Her Majestys Government: relations with French governing authorities (Folder 2)
HS 6/310: 1941-1943 - Her Majestys Government: relations with French governing authorities (Folder 3)
HS 6/311: 1940-1944 - Special Operations Executives relations with French governing authorities (Folder 1)
HS 6/312: 1942 - Special Operations Executives relations with French governing authorities (Folder 2)
HS 6/313: 1943 - Special Operations Executives relations with French governing authorities (Folder 3)
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HS 6/314: 1944 - Special Operations Executives relations with French governing authorities (Folder 4)
HS 6/315: 1943 - Special Operations Executives relations with French governing authorities (Folder 5)(Giraudist)
HS 6/316: 1940-1945
Assessment of political situation
HS 6/317: 1943 - Situation within French migr or other governments; Fighting French
HS 6/318: 1941-1944 - Persecution of SOE agents and sympathisers by their political enemies; fighting French
HS 6/319: 1941-1944 - Use of political groups for SOE activities
HS 6/320: 1941-1942 - Retained by department under Section 3(4)
HS 6/321: 1939-1943 - Political intelligence
HS 6/322: 1940-1944 - Policy, planning and organisation of SOE activities: MONICA/BARDSEA
HS 6/323: 1941-1944 - Planning of sabotage
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HS 6/324: 1943-1944 - Planning: general
HS 6/325: 1939-1940 - Policy planning and organisation effected in Western Europe prior to July 1940 and in Far East prior to May 1942
HS 6/326: 1940 - Policy planning and organisation effected in Western Europe prior to July 1940 and in Far East prior to May 1942; D Section projects
HS 6/327: 1942-1943 - Main and local resistance and partisan groups: EAM (Independent French)
HS 6/328: 1943-1944 - Main and local resistance and partisan groups: Fighting French
HS 6/329: 1943-1944 - Main and local resistance and partisan groups: Maquis operations; interrogations
HS 6/330: 1941-1944 - Resistance movements and partisan forces: development; general (Folder 1)
HS 6/331: 1943 - Resistance movements and partisan forces: development; general (Folder 2)
HS 6/332: 1942-1944 - Resistance movements and partisan forces: development; general; fighting French RF Section (Folder 3)
HS 6/333: 1943 - Resistance movements and partisan forces: general development; Giraudist (Trainer); Commandant Lejeunes mission
HS 6/334: 1943 - Resistance movements and partisan forces: development; European Poles
HS 6/335: 1943-1944 - Resistance movements and partisan forces: development; Maquis operations; Bertin plan
HS 6/336: 1944 - French integration part 1
HS 6/337: 1944 - French integration part 2
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HS 6/338: 1942-1943 - Creation of Maintenance of French Solidarity October 1942-July 1943 (Folder 1)
HS 6/339: 1943 - Creation of Maintenance of French Solidarity (Folder 2)
HS 6/340: 1944 - Creation of Maintenance of French Solidarity (Folder 3) January-May 1944
HS 6/341: 1944 - Creation of Maintenance of French Solidarity June-July 1944 (Folder 4)
HS 6/342: 1944-1945 - French Resistance
HS 6/343: 1943-1944 - Blackmail and sabotage
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HS 6/344: 1945 - Rehabilitation post-war; list of contacts, Coup de main and raiding parties - (HS 6/345 354)
HS 6/345: 1941-1943 - SAVANNA and JOSEPHINE B; citations for awards to Adjudant Jean Forman, Sergeant Joel Le Tac, Sergeant-Chef Andr Varnier and Captain Georges Berg
HS 6/346: 1943 - SCULLION independent French; attempt to sabotage Les Telots shale oil refinery; interrogations
HS 6/347: 1941-1942 - JOSEPHINE B: sabotage of transformer sub-station at Pessac; with 1 newspaper cutting in French and German
HS 6/348: 1943 - PILCHARDS/BREWER: sabotage Matisse works, Versailles; Radio Paris at Allouis
HS 6/349: 1943-1944 - ARMADA: sabotage of Le Creusot electricity power supply and Henri Paul transformer station; destruction of aviation fuel near Varennes le Grand
HS 6/350: 1943 - HOUSEKEEPER: sabotage of canal lock at Lesdains
HS 6/351: 1941 - Retained by department under Section 3(4)
HS 6/352: 1940-1941 - SAVANNA B; particulars of personnel
HS 6/353: 1943 - DRESSMAKER; sabotage of tanneries
HS 6/354: 1942 - HANGMAN; sabotage of pylons
HS 6/355: 1944-1945 - Mission to France to contact British members of allied missions still in France, settle financial matters and collect wireless equipment
Political and military liaison - (HS 6/356-375)
HS 6/356: 1944-1945 - ECHALOTTE mission; wireless bases in Moselle and Vosges areas
HS 6/357: 1943-1944 - SLING: attack on Paris electricity supply
HS 6/358: 1944-1948 - CITRONELLE mission: liaison with French resistance and Maquis in Ardennes
HS 6/359: 1943-1945 - UNION mission: liaison and organisation of Maquis
HS 6/360: 1944 - Missions PAVOT, ORGEAT, SAINFOIN
HS 6/361: 1944-1945 - EUCALYPTUS; communications with London on conditions and supply needs; disruption of road and rail communications; court of enquiry findings
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HS 6/362: 1944 - Cantinier alias APOTHEME: liaison with resistance, Maquis in Haute Savoie, Ain and Jura
HS 6/363: 1944 - ALOES mission: internal communications to Jedburgh teams in Cotes du Nord, Finistere, Morbihan and Loire Inferieure; to pass intelligence from behind enemy lines to 3rd American Army; control of action of resistance in Brittany
HS 6/364: 1944 - CLE (SOCRATE) mission
HS 6/365: 1943-1945 - BERGAMOTTE: Allied mission to Maquis in Creuse
HS 6/366: 1944 - VERVEINE/ISAAC mission to Maquis in Mont de Morvan area
HS 6/367: 1944 - TILLEUL Allied mission to Maquis
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HS 6/368: 1944-1967 - CIVETTE mission: mounted by London Gaullist organisation Bureau Central de Renseignements et Action, Londres (BCRAL)
HS 6/369: 1944 - CAMPHRE mission
HS 6/370: 1944 - SHINOILE mission
HS 6/371: undated - ETOILE mission: intended for Loyton but transferred to Marksman area
(see also HS 6/518 in SOE Part One)
HS 6/372: 1945 - OUTHALL mission: Wing Commander
Yeo-Thomas enquiry and reports on Buchenwald, Fresnes and other concentration camps; wanted German camp personnel; finance and payments to helpers
HS 6/373: 1944 - Organisation and activities of Forces Francaises de lIntrieur (FFI) of Savoie (Folder 1)
HS 6/374: 1944 - Organisation and activities of Forces Francaises de lIntrieur (FFI) of Savoie (Folder 2)
HS 6/375: 1944 - Military role of French resistance; plan of organisation of secret army; Comit de la Liberation Nationale
HS 6/376: 1942-1944 - Resistance and secret army (Folder 1)
HS 6/377: 1944 - Resistance and secret army (Folder 2)
HS 6/378: 1943 - D-Day plans and all PWE material (Folder 1)
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HS 6/379: 1944 - D-Day plans and all PWE material (Folder 2)
HS 6/380: 1943-1945 - SOPHIE mission: Claude Serreulles sent to field as assistance REX/MAX to De Gaulles commissaire for all France
HS 6/381: 1942-1943 - CARTE mission: Andr Girard; unofficial group formed in 1940, working for interim military dictatorship to replace Vichy government
HS 6/382: 1942-1945 - CARTE mission: Andr Girard
HS 6/383: 1944 - BENJOIN mission: armament of Maquis in departments of Cantal and Correze
HS 6/384: 1941 - Clandestine lines: MAINMAST; line from unoccupied France through Spain and Portugal to Lisbon
HS 6/385: 1941-1943 - MAINMAST B mission
HS 6/386: 1944 - LEXUS mission: psychological warfare party; to distribute propaganda to German Army in France
HS 6/387: 1944 - ACOLYTE B mission
HS 6/388: 1942 - AUTOGIRO mission: general sabotage
HS 6/389: 1943-1944 - MAURICE mission (Independent French); Maquis activities, particularly Ain and Savoie
HS 6/390: 1943-1944 - Retained by department under Section 3 (4)
HS 6/391: 1944 - STOCKBROKER mission: industrial sabotage in Montbeliard, Belfort, Hericourt area
HS 6/392: 1943-1944 - DIPLOMAT mission
HS 6/393: 1943-1949 - Marcel Hatets organisation of resistance in Nantes area
HS 6/394: 1944 - SALESMAN mission: report on Groupes Francs
HS 6/395: 1944 - ROSE mission: Robert Rodrigues dropped to field to organise sabotage of telecommunications
HS 6/396: 1944 - VANILLE: blackmail mission to attack industrial targets
HS 6/397: 1943 - CASANOVA mission: to organise pick-up and reception of agents
HS 6/398: 1944 - BIRCH mission; Captain Menzies imprisonment at Fresnes
HS 6/399: 1943-1944 - VARLIN/ALGEBRE: Tartuffes mission to set up liaison with POWs and foreign workers deported to Germany
HS 6/400: 1943-1944 - MARQUIS: organisation of dropping and landing grounds in southern zone: enquiry after BLUDGEON operation in February 1944
HS 6/401: 1943 - BLEDLOW: to obtain German aircraft for Air Ministry Intelligence; follow-on of COAL/TURTLE operation
HS 6/402: 1944 - ARCHIDUC mission
HS 6/403: 1942-1944 - DORY/BRULO: sabotage in north of France; Michel Pierre Gries
HS 6/404: 1944 - CHALDEEN mission: wireless communications
HS 6/405: 1944 - DISTANCE mission: sabotage of industrial targets
HS 6/406: 1942-1944 - ROACH mission: liaison with Resistance in occupied and unoccupied France; wireless communications
HS 6/407: 1944 - EXCELLENCE mission: air operations in Paris area; Pierre Andr Jolinon
HS 6/408: 1944 - FAUCHEUSE mission: agent to collect information on secret arms; sabotage high tension cables; Jean Etienne Sriber; Guy Walter alias CHARRUE
HS 6/409: 1943 - Retained by department under Section 3 (4)
HS 6/410: 1943-1944 - SAPEUR/LEMNISCATE mission Andr Louis Rondenay
HS 6/411: 1943-1945 - MARECHAL mission: A J M Desgranges
HS 6/412: 1945 - GALILEE mission: organisation of region M; J F H Clouet des Perruches sent in succession to CRAB MAJOR
HS 6/413: 1945 - GAUSS mission: organisation in northern France; M A Pichard
HS 6/414: 1945 - LATEUR/PHILINTE mission: railway information and sabotage planning; Ceux de Liberation - Bureau Operations Ariennes (BOA); Henri Pergaud and Rene Vivier
HS 6/415: 1945 - CRAB MAJOR mission: reception committee organisation; dropping grounds in Zone Sud; Bureau dOperations Aeriennes (BOA) Organisation in Paris: Paul Schmidt and G E Brault
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HS 6/416: 1941-1942 - OVERCLOUD mission
HS 6/417: 1942-1944 - Retained by department under Section 3 (4)
HS 6/418: 1941 - BARTER mission: organisation of groups in Bordeaux area; sabotage
HS 6/419: 1945-1968 - Retained by department under Section 3 (4)
HS 6/420: 1945 - Retained by department under Section 3 (4)
HS 6/421: 1943-1944 - Arrests of French resistance leaders; REX
HS 6/422: 1942-1943 - Security files: the BISHOP transmitter enquiry; arrest of members of Carte organisation (Folder 1)
HS 6/423: 1943-1945 - Security files: the BISHOP transmitter enquiry; arrest of members of Carte organisation (Folder 2)
HS 6/424: 1944-1945 - Security file: EUCALYPTUS military mission to Vercors; liaison
HS 6/425: 1944 - Security file: EUCALYPTUS mission court of enquiry
HS 6/426: 1943-1984 - Security files: PROSPER - to re-create active circuit around Paris; press cuttings; PROSPER arrests; with 21 French newspaper cuttings (folded), French Telecom publication May 1966 and Paul Guillaumes book on LAbb Emile Pasty
REEL 20
HS 6/427: 1944 - Retained by department under Section 3 (4)
HS 6/428: 1941-1942 - Security file: De Gaulle and Basque delegation; political intrigue; Basque plan for western Europe Confederation
HS 6/429: 1944 - Retained by department under Section 3 (4)
HS 6/430: 1943 - Security files: COCKLE MAJOR/MINOR; storage depots for arms in western France; finding beaches for escape and landing operations
HS 6/431: 1942-1943 - Security files: SEA URCHIN/DAB; organisation of resistance in Corsica; wireless suspected to be under German control
HS 6/432: 1943-1945 - Retained by department under Section 3 (4)
HS 6/433: 1943-1945 - Security files: general policy; security queries; wireless traffic
HS 6/434: 1944-1947 - Security files: TUNMER/CHRISTOPHE case; Gilbert Charles Georges Turck; arrests in Marseille area
HS 6/435: 1944 - Security files: Woodchuck circuit escape routes
HS 6/436: 1943-1945 - Security files: ACTOR/WEAVER enquiries
HS 6/437: 1945 - Security files: repatriated prisoners of war; interrogations; war crimes; missing personnel; concentration camp lists (Folder 1)
HS 6/438: 1945 - Security files: repatriated prisoners of war; interrogations; war crimes; missing personnel; concentration camp lists (Folder 2)
HS 6/439: 1944-1945 - Security files: SPU 24 (Paris) vetting; interrogations of returned agents; with 1 French newspaper cutting (folded) (Folder 1)
HS 6/440: 1945 - Security files: SPU 24 (Paris) vetting; interrogations of returned agents (Folder 2)
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HS 6/441: 1945 - Retained by department under Section 3 (4)
HS 6/442: 1944 - Retained by department under Section 3 (4)
HS 6/443: 1943-1945 - Retained by department under Section 3 (4)
HS 6/444: 1942 - Air operation SHALE to Melun
HS 6/445: 1942-1950 - Local awards and payments A-C
HS 6/446: 1942-1950 - Local awards and payments D-H
HS 6/447: 1943-1948 - Local awards and payments I-L
HS 6/448: 1942-1949 - Local awards and payments M-O
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HS 6/449: 1943-1947 - Local awards and payments P-S
HS 6/450: 1945-1948 - Local awards and payments T-Z
HS 6/451: 1944-1946 - Finance: claims
HS 6/452: 1944-1946 - Finance: local franc advances; settlement of claims; lists of persons to whom payments have been made
HS 6/453: 1945 - Finance: general reports, liquidation progress; liquidation tour: Major Butler and Lt Colonel Bourne-Paterson
HS 6/454: 1945-1946 - Finance: liquidation; correspondence with Barclays, Lloyds, National Provincial and Westminster banks
REEL 23
HS 6/455: 1942-1946 - Finance: liquidation
HS 6/456: 1942-1946 - Finance: letters advising credits
HS 6/457: 1968-1969 - Retained by department under Section 3 (4)
HS 6/458: 1945 - Reseau "Alliance" (KUL); non-free French; list of names and addresses
HS 6/459: 1944 - SIS renseignements reseau "Alibi" non-free French; card index
HS 6/460: undated - Retained by department under Section 3 (4)
HS 6/461: 1943-1944 - Retained by department under Section 3 (4)
HS 6/462: undated - SHAEF certificates issued to French personnel
HS 6/463: 1945 - Retained by department under Section 3 (4)
HS 6/464: 1947-1949 - Retained by department under Section 3 (4)
HS 6/465: undated - Retained by department under Section 3 (4)
HS 6/466: 1946 - Recommendations for awards to Z group agents (run by Z1 from Switzerland)
HS 6/467: 1945 - List of circuits showing personnel with their last known addresses
HS 6/468: undated - Cross-reference list of British and French agents, personnel and people: A-Z
HS 6/469: 1946-1947 - British circuits in France
HS 6/470: 1944-1946 - Retained by department under Section 3 (4)
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