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Mandatory Palestine’, unpublished paper given at SMH, 2012. In a min-
ute dated 28 December 1945 attached to the SOE history, there is this
comment: ‘The history does not mention the help given by the Jews in
1939 and 1940. They were about the only people to offer their resources
and pledge themselves to help, and were most enthusiastic. This was a
feature of that period.’
- Tuvia Friling, ‘A Blatant Oversight?: The Right Wing in Israeli Holocaust
Historiography’, Israel Studies 14, no. 1 (Spring 2009): 113.
- Yitshaq Ben-Ami, Years of Wrath, Days of Glory: Memoirs from the Irgun
(New York: Speller, 1982), 245–7. Another source states that Raziel col-
laborated with British forces on other commando raids in Iraq, of which
there appear to be no surviving records. Y.S. Brenner, ‘The Stern Gang,
1940–48’, Middle Eastern Studies 2, no. 1 (1965): 3. See also Tuvia Friling,
‘Istanbul, 1942–1945’, ed. David Bankier, Secret Intelligence and the
Holocaust: Collected Essays from the Colloquium at the City University of
New York Graduate Center (New York: Enigma, 2006), 112–15.
- According to SOE records, at the end of May after his flight to Persia, the
question of how to liquidate the ex-Mufti was still under active consider-
ation by SOE and Wavell. Survey of Global Activities, War Diary 5, May–
June 1941, HS 7/216-217, TNA.
- Lyman, First Victory, 135.
- History of SOE in the Arab World, September 1945, HS 7/86, TNA.
- Pollock to AD, 25 November 1940, HS 3/147, TNA. This rationale was
essentially the justification for Adrian Bishop’s original Section D (SIS)
mission to Palestine.
- Syria, 25 July 1941, HS 3/147, TNA.
- CICI Weekly Intelligence Summary and Précis of Information No. 17, 7
June 1941, AIR 29/2504, TNA.
- MEIC/51/23, 6 July 1941, AIR 29/2504, TNA. For the full text of the
revised CICI charter, see Appendix F.
WAR WITHIN WAR
