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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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