Description
Object description
A series of papers relating to his service with the Special Operations Executive (SOE), 1943 – 1944, and later with the Services Reconnaissance Department (SRD) commando unit known as 'Z' Special Unit, in the Pacific in 1945, comprising: Annex a. 23 (ts 3pp, March 1942), to training manual "Final Arrangements" about final checks and precautions before departing on missions behind enemy lines; lists of French SOE operatives in the South of France with names, ranks, permanent addresses, and code names (1p ts, 3pp ms); a ts annex (with ms amendments) to training manual about likely interrogators and interrogation techniques agents may face (February 1944); a secret ts report (7pp) on the French Police Force following its reorganisation since the German occupation (July 1944); Annex a. 22 (ts 3pp, n.d.) entitled "Securite Militaire Personnelle" [in French] about how to avoid security leaks; a copy of a ts report (3pp) entitled "Notes on Political Situation as Propaganda" about the situation in the South of France written by Astley following his debriefing of agents and Resistance members (October 1944); a detailed ts list (3pp) of 36 SOE (Z Special Unit) operatives missing or killed in the Pacific theatre, with details of the mission they were conducting at the time, and the circumstances of their death.
Content description
A series of papers relating to his service with the Special Operations Executive (SOE), 1943 – 1944, and later with the Services Reconnaissance Department (SRD) commando unit known as 'Z' Special Unit, in the Pacific in 1945, comprising: Annex a. 23 (ts 3pp, March 1942), to training manual "Final Arrangements" about final checks and precautions before departing on missions behind enemy lines; lists of French SOE operatives in the South of France with names, ranks, permanent addresses, and code names (1p ts, 3pp ms); a ts annex (with ms amendments) to training manual about likely interrogators and interrogation techniques agents may face (February 1944); a secret ts report (7pp) on the French Police Force following its reorganisation since the German occupation (July 1944); Annex a. 22 (ts 3pp, n.d.) entitled "Securite Militaire Personnelle" [in French] about how to avoid security leaks; a copy of a ts report (3pp) entitled "Notes on Political Situation as Propaganda" about the situation in the South of France written by Astley following his debriefing of agents and Resistance members (October 1944); a detailed ts list (3pp) of 36 SOE (Z Special Unit) operatives missing or killed in the Pacific theatre, with details of the mission they were conducting at the time, and the circumstances of their death.
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Cataloguer SJO