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 3
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HS 6/617 1943-1944
Politics: armistice terms and military surrenders negotiated through SOE; SOE involvement in peace feelers and approaches from Germany (including
von Trott and Moltke) (Folder 1)
HS 6/618 1944
Politics: armistice terms and military surrenders negotiated through SOE; SOE involvement in peace feelers and approaches from Germany (including
von Trott and Moltke) (Folder 2)
HS 6/619 1944-1945
Politics: armistice terms and military surrenders negotiated through SOE; SOE involvement in peace feelers and approaches from Germany (including
von Trott and Moltke); with German newspaper cutting (Folder 3)
HS 6/620 1941-1945
Politics: armistice terms and military surrenders negotiated through SOE; SOE involvement in peace feelers and approaches from Germany (including
von Trott and Moltke); with two Swedish newspaper cuttings (Folder 4)
HS 6/621 1944
Politics: German Committee minutes; Organisation of
X Section; SOE directives and general planning
REEL 25
HS 6/622 1943-1944
Politics: Counter-intelligence committee
HS 6/623 1944-1945
Politics: Operation FOXLEY: plan to kill Hitler and/or his satellites; proposals pressed by SOE and supported by Duff Cooper
HS 6/624 undated
Operation FOXLEY (Folder 1)
HS 6/625 1944-1945
Operation FOXLEY (Folder 2)
HS 6/626 1945
Little FOXLEYS: plans to attack Hitler’s subordinates; possible assassination of Goebbels
HS 6/627 1941-1945
SOE intelligence reports: prisons, internment and
concentration camps (Folder 1)
HS 6/628 1944-1945
SOE intelligence reports: prisons, internment and
concentration camps; SHAEF preliminary list of and general information on concentration camps (Folder 2)
HS 6/629 1944-1975
Prisons, internment and concentration camps:
Dachau and Buchenwald (Folder 1)
HS 6/630 1945
Prisons, internment and concentration camps: Sachsenhausen, Emsland, Oranienburg, Gusen (Mauthausen) (Folder 2)
REEL 26
HS 6/631 1943-1945
Prisons, internment and concentration camps: POWs; regulations and conditions; details of various camps (Folder 1)
HS 6/632 1945
Prisons, internment and concentration camps: POWs; regulations and conditions; details of various camps (Folder 2)
HS 6/633 1945
SHAEF handbook of concentration camps and detention centres in Europe
HS 6/634 1944-1945
Short-term infiltration operations including
VERITABLE, PENCIL, GRENADE, PLUNDER, ANGER and VARSITY
HS 6/635 1943-1944
RANKIN, TALISMAN, T FORCE; targets; future role of SOE; SHAEF directives; organisation of X Section (Folder 1)
HS 6/636 1944
RANKIN, TALISMAN, T FORCES; policy; organisation of X Section; final directives to SOE from SHAEF (Folder 2)
REEL 27
HS 6/637 1938-1945
Policy on resistance by workers and POWs in Germany: Organisation of passive resistance in foreign workers in Germany; fomenting of revolutionary ideas; BRADDOCK I and II (dropping of incendiary devices by air for possible use by POWs in an uprising); WILDHORN; TROJAN HORSE I-IV
HS 6/638 1942-1945
Top level planning: policy planning of SOE post-war activities; German diplomatic and consular missions in neutral countries; conflicts between SOE and
Foreign Office over projected role for SOE
HS 6/639 1941-1944
Operational policy including proposals for SOE/PWE action in support of invasion in Europe; organisation of X Section
HS 6/640 1944
Operational policy including paper on long and
short-term SOE operations; organisation of X Section
HS 6/641 1942-1945
Propaganda letters for posting in Germany;
forging of Himmler stamps; with 14 newspaper cuttings
(some folded) including Swedish and French
HS 6/642 1936-1940
Operations of Johannes Jahn
HS 6/643 1942-1943
Post-war re-organisation in Germany; Role of SOE in post-war Germany; countering Nazi underground movements; conflicts between SOE and the
Foreign Office over projected role of SOE (Folder 1)
REEL 28
HS 6/644 1943
Post-war reorganisation in Germany, including
Nazi schools (Folder 2)
HS 6/645 1943-1944
Post-war re-organisation in Germany; Role of SOE in post-war Germany; countering Nazi underground movements; conflicts between SOE and the
Foreign Office over projected role of SOE (Folder 3)
HS 6/646 1942-1943
LILY and HARRY: Use of German agents in Sweden;
Ruth Lindhorst, possible agent provacateur, (Lily) and SOE agent (Harry) infiltrated into German consulate
HS 6/647 1941-1943
International Transport Workers Federation; communications into Sweden (Folder 1)
HS 6/648 1943-1645
International Transport Workers Federation: communications into Sweden (Folder 2)
REEL 29
HS 6/649 1942-1945
SAM and EDWARD; movements of German ships;
with one Swedish newspaper cutting
HS 6/650 1941-1944
Sopade communications into Sweden (Folder 1)
HS 6/651 1943-1945
Sopade communications into Sweden (Folder 2)
HS 6/652 1942-1944
CALVADOS: sabotage operation in Bremen and Hamburg, using a German deserter, Kurt König;
organiser dispatched to create network, with examples of forged documents used
HS 6/653 1941-1943
Internationaler Sozialistischer Kampf-bund (ISK) communications with Switzerland (Folder 1)
REEL 30
HS 6/654 1943
Internationaler Sozialistischer Kampf-bund (ISK) communications with Switzerland (Folder 2)
HS 6/655 1943-1945
Internationaler Sozialistischer Kampf-bund (ISK) communications with Switzerland (Folder 3)
HS 6/656 1942-1945
Operation SHELTER: to arrest leading Nazis (connected with Dr H Soedermann)
HS 6/657 1943-1944
German armistice terms
HS 6/658 1944
Operation DOWNEND: dispatch of agent for creation of a sub-organisation in the Ruhr and Frankfurt area, based on a nucleus of contacts with the ISK (Folder 1)
HS 6/659 1944-1945
Operation DOWNEND: creation of a sub-organisation in the Ruhr and Frankfurt area (Folder 2)
REEL 31
HS 6/660 1944
Operation FORDWICK: establishment of a line between Denmark and Germany for agent infiltration (Folder 1)
HS 6/661 1944-1945
Operation FORDWICK: establishment of a line between Denmark and Germany for agent infiltration (Folder 2)
HS 6/662 1944-1945
Operation VIVACIOUS: to sabotage Bruno Hintze precision engineering works in Berlin, which was producing V2 rocket components, with full report and photographs (Folder 1)
HS 6/663 1944
Operation VIVACIOUS: to sabotage Bruno Hintze precision engineering works in Berlin, which was producing V2 rocket components, with reports and other details, German and French identity cards
(Folder 2)
HS 6/664 1944-1945
Operation FRILFORD: to sabotage railway tracks from Hintschingen to Oberlauchringen; reports from agents on success
HS 6/665 1944-1945
Operation COLAN: to sabotage main railway line between Stuttgart and Heilbronn; reports of success by agents
HS 6/666 1944-1945
Operation FLECKNEY: acts of sabotage in region of Breslau
REEL 32
HS 6/667 1944-1945
Operation CLINT: sabotage of railway lines south of Baden, especially Singen-Hattingen and Sigmaringen-Tuttlingen
HS 6/668 1944-1945
Operation CALTON: to develop subversive activities of Edelweiss organisation in Ruhr and Rhineland area
HS 6/669 1944-1945
Operation CHALFONT: sabotage against new type of German U-boat
HS 6/670 1944-1945
Operation CARHAM: sabotage in Magdeburg area; later centred on Nuremburg, reports, February 1945
HS 6/671 1945
Operation COLBURN: sabotage of railway lines Gelnhausen - Schluechtern and Aschaffenberg - Gemuenden
HS 6/672 1945
Captain Strutt’s TRIANGLE agents
HS 6/673 1945
Operation CARSTAIRS: sabotage in Halle area
HS 6/674 1945
Operation CHALGROVE: sabotage in Hamburg area; attempt to assassinate U-boat officers
HS 6/675 1945
Operation COLEHILL: sabotage in Berlin area
REEL 33
HS 6/676 1945
Operation CRESSWELL: sabotage by dockworkers and seamen in Hamburg/Bremen area
HS 6/677 1945
Operation CAREW: tactical sabotage on targets behind enemy lines
HS 6/678 1944-1945
Operations FANGFOSS and FIDDINGTON: sabotage in Flensburg and Kiel
HS 6/679 1945
Activities of MOUSE (alias of Musy) in Switzerland concerning organisation of escape lines for useful persons from Germany, with 6 German newspaper cuttings (2 folded)
HS 6/680 1945
Operation BRANSTON: sabotage in Luebeck area
HS 6/681 1945
FELSPAR: courier operation between Hamburg, Kiel and Flensburg
HS 6/682 1945
Operation CURLAND: sabotage of railway line Nordhausen/Blankenheim
HS 6/683 1945
Operation CREGINA: sabotage of railway line Eisenach/Bebra
HS 6/684 1945
Operation CROMER: despatch of two agents from Sweden to Luebeck to organise penetration of Nazi underground movement
HS 6/685 1945
Operation MARKINCH: to make attempts on lives of
U-boat officers in Kiel area and to incite sailors and dock-workers to subversive activities
HS 6/686 1945
Operation CATMORE: sabotage in marshalling yards of Augsburg
REEL 34
HS 6/687 1945
Operation MIRFIELD: to sabotage vital machinery in electric railway transformer station at Pasing
HS 6/688 1945
Operation CLIXBY: infiltrating 3 agents through enemy lines to carry out tactical reconnaissance or sabotage
HS 6/689 1945
ME42: recruiting and disposal of agents (Bonzos);
new SOE charter from SHAEF for action in Germany; political intelligence (Folder 1)
HS 6/690 1945
ME42: recruiting and disposal of agents (Bonzos);
new SOE charter from SHAEF for action in Germany; political intelligence (Folder 2)
HS 6/691 1945
Internationale Sozialistische Kampf-bund (ISK) personnel and SOE collaboration in post-war Germany
HS 6/692 1940-1943
Early X Section work:
Weekly and monthly progress reports
HS 6/693 1941-1945
Switzerland: possible contacts to form line of communication
HS 6/694 1942-1944
PWE productions; black propaganda with three newspaper cuttings (some in German and Swedish) (Folder 1) with examples of forgeries, rumours and sexual defamation of Nazi leadership
HS 6/695 1943-1945
PWE productions; black propaganda with 20 newspaper cuttings (some folded and most in German and Swedish) (Folder 2)
REEL 35
HS 6/696 1943-1945
PWE productions; black propaganda with German pamphlets and 16 newspaper cuttings in German and Swedish (some folded) (Folder 3)
HS 6/697 1939-1940
Retained by Department under Section 3(4)
HS 6/698 1940-1942
Retained by Department under Section 3(4)
HS 6/699 1940-1942
Demuth Committee
HS 6/700 1943-1944
Liaison with Directorate of Civil Affairs: provision of staff officer for Civil Affairs; Gauleiter school
HS 6/701 1941-1943
Agent in Switzerland: X/G/115 (J.Q.F.)
HS 6/702 1940-1944
Enemy agents; German counter-espionage methods, information for SOE agents; with Swedish newspaper cutting (folded)
HS 6/703 1942-1944
OSS and German émigré resistance groups
REEL 36
HS 6/704 1944-1945
SOE participation with OSS in operations NAPLES II, VARSITY, CHOKER II
HS 6/705 1944-1945
SOE Paris mission in liaison with DGER
(Direction Générale des Etudes et Recherches) dealing with work into Germany
HS 6/706 1945
SOE Paris mission; DGER and its liaison with SOE, MI5, MI6, OSS, SHAEF; weekly minutes of DGER meetings; JUDEX missions; Devon Committee; Booster project; NORVIC mission; VICARAGE; Jedburgh mission ROSE (Folder 1)
HS 6/707 1945
SOE Paris mission; DGER and its liaison with SOE, MI5, MI6, OSS, SHAEF; weekly minutes of DGER meetings (Direction Générale des Études et Recherches); JUDEX missions; Devon Committee; Booster project; NORVIC mission; VICARAGE; Jedburgh mission ROSE (Folder 2)
HS 6/708 1944-1945
Paris mission and DGER: personnel and Centre 20 and training establishments
REEL 37
HS 6/709 1944-1945
Joint DLSSL/SOE intelligence and planning section (Détachement de liaison des Services spéciaux à Londres); plans to send French agents to Germany; operations MOLESEY and VICARAGE; communications; BBC messages and pigeon operations; methods of sabotage
HS 6/710 1945
Operation DOWNRIGHT 1A: dropping of stores;
training stores; Centre 20; policy and supply to
Direction Générale des Études et Recherches (DGER)
HS 6/711 1945
Operation NORVIC: to interrupt railways communication on Siegburg/Betzdorf line
HS 6/712 1945 Operation JAEGER/AIDAN: to provide French foreign workers near Turkheim; with wireless communications and ensure their cooperation with advancing
Allied forces
HS 6/713 1945
Operations not completed: MATITA/PENDA (Augsburg area); MATITA/RUFUS (Turkheim); KOUPY/BIRINO (Munchen); wireless operators
HS 6/714 1945
French short-term saboteurs under
Commandant St Jacques
HS 6/715 1945
Goujon party and suggested targets in Germany
HS 6/716 1945
Bolingbroke mission: Goethals alias Godart
HS 6/717 1945
Lambert’s mission: wireless operator sent to organise Belgian workers in Augsburg area
HS 6/718 1942-1945
Policy and planning: BRADDOCK I and II;
general planning (including dropping of incendiary devices by air for possible use by POWs in an uprising)
REEL 38
HS 6/719 1942-1944
BRADDOCK I and II: progress reports and stock returns
HS 6/720 1942-1945
BRADDOCK I and II: communication with War Cabinet, Prime Minister and SHAEF
HS 6/721 1942-1945
BRADDOCK I and II: SOE Chiefs of Staff papers;
with one German newspaper cutting and German leaflet
HS 6/722 1942-1945
BRADDOCK I and II: security section file
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