[1] The mission consisted of three Yugoslav Canadians who were recruited by the SOE and trained in clandestine operations at Camp X on the Lake Ontario, near the US border.
[3] During World War II, both the Special Operation Executive (SOE) and its military counterpart, the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS), operated in Canada and the United States in order to recruit European immigrants as potential agents for deployment in their native countries.
[5] Their main task would be the acts of sabotage on German communication lines and transport of oil, raw materials, troops and war materiel.
This was in response to a previous mission, Operation Hydra, which resulted in death of two British officers most likely at the hand of a royalist Chetnik in April–May 1942.
[13] On 7 July 1943, Serdar used recently dropped British plastic explosive to interrupt rail transport of coal, hoping to deprive other trains of fuel and frustrate enemy's troop movements.
[14] On collaboration with the occupiers, they further reported on 29 July 1943 that the German command were using Chetniks as auxiliaries, for attacks on the Partisans and for guarding the railway near Tuzla.