Catalogue description Organisation and functions of SIME Special Section (1942-1945): key documents...

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Details of KV 4/197
Reference: KV 4/197
Description:

Organisation and functions of SIME Special Section (1942-1945): key documents originating in Security Intelligence Middle East (SIME) which were salvaged from the files of the SIME Special Section before they were destroyed after the Second World War. Thedocuments cover the establishment and organisation of the Special Section, which ran double agents against the Abwehr in the Middle East; double and triple agent methodology; and a selection of plans for both actual and proposed deception operations (mostly Middle Eastern but some UK-based). There are also summaries of double agent cases, in particular CHEESE, and some papers relating to the 44 Committee in Italy
Date: 1942 Jan 01 - 1948 Dec 31
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: POLF50-24-44-82
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description
Access conditions: Retained Until 2003
Record opening date: 04 April 2003

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