'C', Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS): Miscellaneous Correspondence

A file of miscellaneous correspondence relating to British intelligence during the Second World War. Subjects discussed in this file include the distribution of intelligence from occupied Greece; the sharing of information gained during the repatriation of Axis nationals from South America; intelligence requirements and areas of interest for several countries, including topics such as the post-war wishes of the general public, and their attitude towards the U.S.S.R.; Summaries of intelligence activity in the Mediterranean for April, May and July 1944, including the insertion of agents into Italy, cooperation with the Soviets in the Balkans and complaints that intelligence networks were becoming inactive as their areas of operation were liberated by the Allied advance; the safeguarding of ‘Boniface’ communications intelligence; an example of a questionnaire given to captured enemy agents; arrangements for the division of responsibility for gathering of political intelligence in the Middle East; and discussion of the value of intelligence reports.