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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
Abbreviations and Code Names
The following list provides details on the abbreviations and code names which occur frequently in the SOE records. It does not contain all the abbreviations and code names found in the files, but is included here for general guidance on some of the most common instances.
AD/B
Head of mission, Gibraltar; this abbreviation also appears to have been used for the SOE director of
intelligence and security in London.
AD/E
SOE head of operations, north-west Europe (also known as London section). Headed by EE Mockler
Ferryman from March 1943.
AL
SOE Airforce liaison section.
Barking
Albania.
BCRA
Bureau Central de Renseignements et d’Action (Free French Centre for Intelligence and Action).
BLO
British Liaison Officer.
BOA
Bureau d’Opérations Aériennes (France).
BRAL
Bureau de Renseignements et d’Action Londres (Free French, London office for Research and Action).
CD
Head of SOE; from August 1940, Sir Frank Nelson;
from May 1942, Sir Charles Hambro; from September 1943, General Sir Colin Gubbins.
CDL
Comité Départemental de la Libération (French).
CEO
Chief Executive Office; Gladwyn Jebb to May 1942.
CFL
Corps Frances de la Libération (French).
CFLN
Comité Français de la Libération Nationale (French Committee of National Liberation).
CLN
Comitato di Liberazione.
CLNAI
Comitato di Liberazione Nazionale dell’ Alta Italia.
CNR
Conseil National de la Résistance
(France, National Council of Resistance).
COMAC
Comité d’Action Militaire (Military Action Committee of CNR).
DF Escape
section of SOE, working in north-west Europe.
DGSS
Direction Générale des Services Spéciaux
(Gaullist Special Services Executive).
DMOS
Délégué Militaire Operations Sud.
D/R SOE
eputy head of operations, north-west Europe.
EMFFI
État Major des Forces Français de l’Intérieur
(General Staff, French Forces of the Interior).
EU/P
Liaison section, Polish forces in France.
F
Independent country section for France.
FCNL
French Committee of National Liberation.
FFI
Forces Françaises de I’Intérieur (unified French forces, under General Koenig).
FIL
Front de L’indépendence et la Liberation, Belgium.
FTP
Francs-Tireurs et Partisans (French Communist resistance; literally sharp-shooters and partisans).
Group G
Belgium, small specialized sabotage group, an SOE creation, through Tybalt/Claudius mission.
GB 2502
Head of Tangier mission, Barbara Salt.
H
Iberian section; also denotes head of section.
ISRB
Inter Services Research Bureau.
ISSU
Inter Service Signals Unit.
Ilford
Austria.
M
Head of SOE operations section.
Massingham
SOE base near Algiers.
MEW
Ministry of Economic Warfare.
MGB
Motor Gun Boat.
MLN
Mouvement de Libération Nationale (Federation of the
Earl of Murray with Northern resistance groups, France).
MNB
Mouvement National Belge.
MTB
Motorised torpedo boat.
MUR
Mouvements Unis de la Résistance (consolidation of Combat, Libération, and Franc-Tireurs).
N
SOEcountry section for the Netherlands.
OD
Orde Dienst (Holland).
ORA
Organization de Résistance de l’Armée (Army resistance organisation, disbanded by Germans, 1942, France).
Osric
Code name given to Brigade Blanches or Troupes Secrètes, General Gerard, Belgium.
OVRA
Organizzazione di vigilanza e repressione dell’antifascismo
(Italy, organization for repressing anti-fascists).
OSS
Office of Strategic Services.
PCF
Parti communiste française (French Communist Party).
PCI
Partiti comunista italiano (Italian Communist Party).
PICKAXES
name given to Russian agents, to be infiltrated by SOE.
PWE
Political Warfare Executive.
RF
Free French/Gaullist Section of SOE.
SAP
Section d’attérrisage et de parachutage (Section for landings, parachuting, southern France).
SO
Minister of Economic Warfare, head of SOE; initially Hugh Dalton, he was succeeded by Lord Selborne in February 1942.
SOE/SO
Joint SOE/OSS group, working into north-western Europe.
SPOC
Special Project Operations Centre (Algiers).
SPU
pecial Planning Units, Belgium.
STO
Service du Travail Obligatoire (France).
STS
Special Training Schools.
Surbiton
Yugoslavia.
T
Section of SOE working into Belgium and Luxemburg.
V/CD
Deputy to CD; H N Sporborg from September 1943.
V1 and V2
German weapons; V1 was a pilotless rocket aircraft and the V2 was a larger rocket missile, V standing for Vergeltungswaffe, or reprisal weapon.
X
Section of SOE concerned with work into Germany and Austria.
13 Land
Belgium.
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