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Article: Mission 101--the Operational Centres: the hidden Australian involvement in Ethiopia--WW2 and the formation of the Special Operations Executive, "SOE".
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- June 1, 2003
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Preface
Mission 101 started its days as a covert operation planned by Britain's Military Intelligence community MI(R). The Mission was designed to open a second front in North Africa by inciting rebellion against the Italian occupiers of Ethiopia with the objective of re-installing the Ethiopian Emperor, Haile Sellaisse, onto the Ethiopian throne. Undoubtedly part of the motivation for Mission 101 was the appeasement of a disillusioned British population who had, in general, never accepted the British political acquiescence to the Italian invasion of 1935/6. Mission 101 ended its days as Gideon Force, which was part of the Allied invasion force that eventually ...