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SPECIAL OPERATIONS EXECUTIVE, 1940-1946
Series 1, Special Operations in Western Europe
Part 1: France: The Jedburgh Teams and Operation Overlord, 1944-1945,
Part 2: France: Political and Planning Files, Circuits and Missions, 1940-1947
Part 3: Germany, 1936-1945
Part 4: Holland, 1940-1949
Part 5: Italy, 1941-1948
Contents of Reels - Part 2
REEL 11
Political situation, policy and planning - (HS 6/308 - 337)
HS 6/308 1940-1945
Her Majesty’s Government: relations with French governing authorities, (Folder 1)
including SOE relations with Gaullist movement and the Foreign Office from 1942 onwards; Free French forces: doubts over security arrangements; D-Day 1944
HS 6/309 1940-1941
Her Majesty’s Government: relations with French governing authorities (Folder 2)
including assessment of Charles de Gaulle and situation in France; dispute with Desmond Morton about the status of SOE
HS 6/310 1941-1943
Her Majesty’s Government: relations with French governing authorities (Folder 3)
HS 6/311 1940-1944
Special Operations Executive’s relations with French governing authorities (Folder 1)
including assessment of Charles de Gaulle and situation in France; relations between F Section and
Free French; de Gaulle’s attempts to control the Section; persecution of SOE agents
HS 6/312 1942
Special Operations Executive’s relations with French governing authorities (Folder 2)
including relations between F Section and
Free French; de Gaulle’s attempts to control the Section; persecution of SOE agents
HS 6/313 1943
Special Operations Executive’s relations with French governing authorities (Folder 3)
including relations between F Section and
Free French; de Gaulle’s attempts to control the Section; persecution of SOE agents
REEL 12
HS 6/314 1944
Special Operations Executive’s relations with French governing authorities (Folder 4)
HS 6/315 1943
Special Operations Executive’s relations with French governing authorities (Folder 5) (Giraudist)
HS 6/316 1940-1945
Assessment of political situation
HS 6/317 1943
Situation within French émigré or other governments; Fighting French
HS 6/318 1941-1944
Persecution of SOE agents and sympathisers by their political enemies; fighting French; relations between
F Section and Free French; de Gaulle’s attempts to control the Section
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
Structure of F Section; policy, planning and organisation of SOE activities: MONICA/BARDSEA
HS 6/323 1941-1944
Structure of F Section; Planning of sabotage
REEL 13
HS 6/324 1943-1944
Planning: general; Structure of F Section
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; Section D initial planning 1939-1940
HS 6/326 1940
Policy planning and organisation effected in
Western Europe prior to July 1940 and in Far East
prior to May 1942; Section D projects; Section D initial planning 1939-1940
HS 6/327 1942-1943
Main and local resistance and partisan groups:
EAM (Independent French); CARTE organisation
HS 6/328 1943-1944
Main and local resistance and partisan groups:
Fighting French; assessment of Charles de Gaulle and situation in France
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 Lejeune’s 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: organisational preparation for D-Day
HS 6/337 1944
French integration, Part 2: organisational preparation for D-Day
REEL 14
Creation and maintenance of French solidarity - (HS 6/338-344)
HS 6/338 1942-1943
Creation and maintenance of French solidarity,
October 1942-July 1943 (Folder 1)
including SOE relations with Gaullist movement and the Foreign Office from 1942 onwards
HS 6/339 1943
Creation of Maintenance of French Solidarity (Folder 2)
HS 6/340 1944
Creation of Maintenance of French Solidarity,
January-May 1944 (Folder 3)
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
REEL 15
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 Adjutant Jean Forman,
Sergeant Joel Le Tac, Sergeant-Chef André Varnier and Captain Georges Bergé
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 in 1942; with one newspaper cutting in French and German; comments on success and attitude of Winston Churchill
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
Allied Missions still in France, 1944-1945 - (HS 6/355)
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 mission to Vercors resistance: communications with London on conditions and supply needs; disruption of road and rail communications; court of enquiry findings
REEL 16
HS 6/362 1944
Cantinier alias APOTHEME: liaison with resistance, Maquis in Haute Savoie, Ain and Jura; Free French forces: doubts over security arrangements; D-Day 1944
HS 6/363 1944
ALOES mission: internal communications to Jedburgh teams in Côtes du Nord, Finistère, Morbihan and Loire Inférieure; to pass intelligence from behind enemy lines to 3rd American Army; control of action of resistance in Brittany
HS 6/364 1944
CLE (SOCRATES) 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
REEL 17
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 1)
HS 6/372 1945
OUTHALL mission: Wing Commander Yeo-Thomas’s 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 Françaises de l’Intérieur (FFI) of Savoie (Folder 1)
HS 6/374 1944
Organisation and activities of Forces Françaises de l’Intérieur (FFI) of Savoie (Folder 2)
HS 6/375 1944
Military role of French resistance; plan of organisation of secret army; Comité de la Liberation Nationale
Circuits and Missions in France - (HS 6/376 - 470)
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)
REEL 18
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 Gaulle’s commissaire for all France
HS 6/381 1942-1943
ARTE mission: André Girard; unofficial group formed in 1940, working for interim military dictatorship to replace Vichy government
HS 6/382 1942-1945
CARTE mission: André Girard
HS 6/383 1944
BENJOIN mission: armament of Maquis in départements 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
PLEXUS 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 Hatet’s organisation of resistance in Nantes area; PROSPER circuit
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: Tartuffe’s 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 André 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 André 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 Libération - Bureau Operations Ariennes (BOA); Henri Pergaud and
Réné Vivier
HS 6/415 1945
CRAB MAJOR mission: reception committee organisation; dropping grounds in Zone Sud; Bureau d’Operations Aeriennes (BOA) Organisation in Paris: Paul Schmidt and
G E Brault
REEL 19
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;
arrest of Moulin 1943; 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 to Vercors;
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 Guillaume’s book on L’Abbé 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 and Basque movement; Basque plan for Western Europe Confederation or greater French Confederation based on Paris
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)
REEL 21
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
REEL 22
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
Lieutenant Colonel Bourne-Paterson
HS 6/454 1945-1946
inance: 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
HAEF 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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