Researching MI6 and Romania, 1940––49

Abstract

In respect of Romania little has entered the public domain in Britain about the work of the MI6 network which was active throughout the Second World War in gathering and passing on information to the British authorities about German military operations in Romania and Transnistria. The aim of this article is to shed some light on the network's activity in the period 1940-49. My research is based upon previously unpublished primary sources held by the National Council for the Study of the Archive of the Securitate (CNSAS) in Bucharest, as well as upon Foreign Office papers in The National Archives in London, on interviews with former officers of MI6 and of Romania's Second World War secret service, and on relevant secondary literature.