Great Britain. Special Operations Executive

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The Special Operations Executive (SOE) was a secret British World War II organisation. It was officially formed on 22 July 1940 under Minister of Economic Warfare, Hugh Dalton, by the amalgamation of three existing secret organisations. Its purpose was to conduct espionage, sabotage and reconnaissance in occupied Europe (and later, also in occupied Southeast Asia) against the Axis powers, and to aid local resistance movements. After the war, the organisation was dissolved on 15 January 1946.
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referencedIn Thomas McKitterick: Papers relating to his service with the Intelligence Corps in the Eastern Mediterranean, 1942-1945, 1942-1945 Cambridge University Library, Department of Manuscripts and University Archives
creatorOf Great Britain. Special Operations Executive. Special Operations Executive miscellaneous records, 1939-1943. Stanford University, Hoover Institution Library
referencedIn EVANS, Maj Patrick Hutchinson (1913-1994), 1943-1944, 1991-1993 King's College London, Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives
referencedIn DALTON, Edward Hugh John Neale, 1887-1962, Baron Dalton, 1916-1964 British library of political and economic science
creatorOf Great Britain. Special Operations Executive miscellaneous records, 1939-1943 Hoover Institution Archives
referencedIn HAMSON, Professor Charles John Joseph (1905-1987), 1941-1945 King's College London, Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives
referencedIn United States. Office of Strategic Services. OSS/London: Special Operations Branch and Secret Intelligence Branch war diaries, 1944, [microfilm]. Yale University Library
referencedIn Papers of Roundell Cecil Palmer, 3rd Earl of Selborne, 1849-1968, 1849-1968 Bodleian Library, Oxford
referencedIn Papers of William James Millar Mackenzie, b.1909, Professor of Politics, University of Glasgow, Scotland, 1948 Glasgow University Library Special Collections
referencedIn WOODHOUSE, Col Hon Christopher Montague (b 1917), 1942-1973 King's College London, Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives
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associatedWith Mackenzie, William James Millar (b. 1909: Professor of Politics, University of Glasgow, Scotland) person
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Establishment 1940-07-22

Disestablishment 1946-01-15

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