The actual course given to all secret agents in SOE before working behind enemy lines It
Includes:: everything you needed to know to go undercover
- from documents cover stories & how to live off the land to how to get through an interrogation The Special Operations Executive (SOE) was a secret British World War II organisation formed in 1940 to conduct espionage sabotage & reconnaissance in occupied Europe against the Axis powers & to aid local resistance movements In late 1942 SOE was asked to increase the number of agents to aid the invasion of mainland Europe Part of agent training was tradecraft'
- the practical details on how to be a clandestine agent behind enemy lines
- which every agent had to attend at various bases centred around Beaulie in Hampshire The course was a set of lectures & this book contains the actual text of those lectures which were discovered in the National Archives this year It is not only a fascinating insight into the workings of one of the Second World Wars most famous & secretive organisations but is also a reminder of the huge danger anyone being dropped behind enemy lines had to face SYLLABUSIntroduction to Course Individual Security Informant Service Cover Interrogations Operational Orders Know your Enemy Surveillance Internal Communications Premises Security & Premises for WT Operator WT Operator External Communications Organisation Cell System Security of Organisation Recruiting Discipline & Morale Burglary Lock-picking Selection of Dropping Points & Reception Arrangements To be given on instructions from London) Handcuffs Pigeons German Counter Espionage German Uniformed Police National Police
- eg of France Belgium etc (Given according to student's destination) The Nazi Party & its Formations in Occupied Territory Recognition of German Troops by weapons & equipment Recognition of German Troops by uniforms Military Intelligence Reports Handling of German Light Weapons Morale Warfare Methods of Morale Warfare Subversion of enemy troops Instructions for Foreign Workers in Germany Passive Resistance in Occupied Countries Current German Propaganda to Europe Tasks Preparatory to Allied arrival