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Photocopied ts transcriptions (25pp) of material amassed since her service with the Special Operations Executive (SOE) at Bletchley Park between 1941 and 1944 concerning British relations with Yugoslavia, the use of intercepted information, the guerrilla activity of Tito and Michailovich, post-war secrecy about operations at Bletchley and effect this had on historiography. The collection includes an account explaining the purpose of 3L, the Liaison section in Hut 3 which decided which ciphers should have priority, and their role in the planning of D-Day; a citation for the posthumous award of the Legion of Merit to General Michailovich; a lecture given by Brigadier General Archibald Jack CB CMG CBE and relating to his service as an officer on a War Office mission to Russia, Romania and Iraq between 1916 and 1918, describing his enlistment and voyage to Britain from Argentina during which his ship was torpedoed, his journey to Romania via Russia during the early stages of the Bolshevik Revolution, his work attempting to link up the Russian and Romanian fronts and keep them supplied, lunching with the Romanian royal family, encounters with Bolsheviks in the Caucasus, failed attempts to stop the spread of desertion in the Red Army, English governesses in Russian families, being placed under arrest by Bolsheviks and his subsequent release, journey to Baghdad to report on the state of the Russian front, his journey via India and Japan to Vladivostok where he became head of the Inter-Allied Board to control operations along the Trans-Siberian Railway, evacuating people threatened by Bolsheviks, and his eventual return home.
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Catalogue date 2002-05-17
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