Key Information
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1953 (Creation)
- 1949-1950 (Creation)
- 1939-1945 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent
6 boxes or 0.06 cubic metres
Scope and content
Papers principally relating to operations of the Special Operations Executive (SOE) in Italy, Greece, the Aegean and the Balkans, 1941-1945, including: SOE training manuals, and various SOE memoranda relating to the 'Rhine mine', poisons, inland waterways, and the 'New Zionists', 1941-1944; memoranda and directives on SOE infiltration of Italy and the recruitment of Italian agents, the production of propaganda for use in Italy, transcripts of subversive propaganda broadcasts to the Italian people via Radio Jerusalem, letters from Stefano Terra, regarding the activities of the anti-fascist group Giustizia e Libertà, 1940-1943; diary of Capt R Guy Turrall during his SOE sabotage mission to Crete, 1941-1942; papers concerning SOE Operations BASILIC and ERRATIC (infiltration of Scarpanto and Rhodes), 1943; papers concerning propaganda operations in conjunction with the Political Warfare Executive, particularly Operations KREIPE and KRIMSCHILD, May 1944, to demoralize German troops on Crete; reports, 1943-1945, relating to SOE activities on Crete, including reports on the kidnapping by SOE of German Maj Gen Heinrich Kreipe; appreciations of SOE activities in Greece, Hungary, Bulgaria, Rumania, 1943; correspondence of Headquarters Force 133 (SOE Cairo, Egypt) in regard to promotion, welfare, training, transfers and postings of personnel, including confidential reports on individual staff, 1944-1945; diary of Maj John Mulgan, British Liaison Officer in Greece, 1944; correspondence relating to the winding up of SOE organisation in Greece, 1944-1945; various other papers, comprising correspondence with Anne René Pleven, 1939-1941, on the German bombing of London and the reaction of the French people to German occupation and the Vichy government; report on René Pleven, French Minister of Defence, concerning Pleven's attitude to the French political situation, policy towards Indo-China and the French High Command, 1949; papers relating to the reorganisation of Lyons Silks Ltd, French Silhouettes and Arnold Securities, 1949-1950; newspaper article on German penetration of the SOE network in the Netherlands, 1942-1944, dated 1953.
System of arrangement
Arranged in the following sections: training and instruction of SOE personnel and various SOE memoranda, 1940-1944; SOE operations in Italy, 1940-1943; SOE operations in Greece, the Aegean and the Balkans, and correspondence of Headquarters, Force 133, 1941-1946; various papers of Dobrski, 1939-1953.
General Information
Name of creator
Biographical history
Born Giulio Orazio Mario Dobrski (also known as Giulio Giuliano Augusto Dobrski) in Italy, 1901; educated in France, Italy, Spain and Switzerland; BSc, University of Lyons, France; naturalised British citizen, Aug 1939; served with the Special Operations Executive (SOE), 1940-1945, mainly based at Headquarters of Force 133 at Cairo, Egypt, during World War Two, under the name of Maj and later Lt Col Julian Antony Dolbey; worked for Lyons Silks Ltd, French Silhouettes and Arnold Securities, all associated companies of the French textile group Maison J Bourdelin, died in 1968.
Repository
Custodial history
Presented to the Centre by the family in 1989, 1995 and 2000, via the 2nd Earl Jellicoe.
Conditions governing access
Some material is CLOSED but most of the collection is open, subject to signature of Reader's undertaking form, and appropriate provision of two forms of identification, to include one photographic ID.
Conditions governing reproduction
Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied from open material for research purposes only.
Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Trustees of the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, via the Archives.
Language of material
- English
- French
- Greek
- Italian
Script of material
Language and script notes
Mainly English, some French, Greek and Italian.
Finding aids
This collection level description and detailed catalogue.
Related materials
Note
Compiled Nov 1999, revised Jul 2000
Alternative identifier(s)
Subjects
- Armed forces
- Central government
- Communication process
- Diaries
- Documents
- Government
- Higher science education
- Humanitarian law
- Information sources
- International conflicts
- International relations
- Literary forms and genres
- Literature
- Military education
- Military engineering
- Military operations
- Military organizations
- Nonfiction
- Occupied territories
- Operation Basilic (1943)
- Operation Erratic (1943)
- Operation Kreipe (1944)
- Operation Krimschild (1944)
- Organizations
- Persuasion
- Primary documents
- Propaganda
- Prose
- Public administration
- Seas
- Special forces
- State security
- War
- Warfare
- War propaganda
- World wars (events)
- World War Two (1939-1945)
- Wars (events)
Place access points
People and Organisations
- Kriepe, Heinrich, fl 1943-1945, German Major General (Subject)
- Pleven, Anne Rene, d 1966, wife of Rene Jean Pleven (Subject)
- Pleven, Rene Jean, 1901-1993, French politician (Subject)
- Terra, Stephano, fl 1940-1943 (Subject)
- Turrall, R Guy, fl 1941-1942, Captain (Subject)
- SOE, Special Operations Executive (Subject)
Genre access points
Rules and/or conventions used
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000.