Abstract
Abstract I have briefly touched on the use of spies and captured documents; we must not forget the role played by the groups that operated behind the lines in Burma and elsewhere in south-east Asia, with the original task of organising sabotage and guerrilla activities, and an extra responsibility, added later after acrimonious controversy, for collecting intelligence. There was a link with signals intelligence: signals were their lifeline, and signals security was even more crucial for their survival than it was for any military unit. The Americans had a simple arrangement in the area: the OSS (Office of Strategic Services) looked after all their clandestine groups, whatever their function, while the OWI (Office of War Information) dealt with propaganda For the same functions in the same area the British had no fewer than ten secret organisations, five of which had no hand in sabotage, the training of guerrillas or the getting of intelligence.
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