TOP SECRET 2. PEACE-TIME INSTRUCTION IN THE USE OF CODES FOR PRISONER OF WAR PURPOSES THE COMMITTEE had before them a minute+ by the Secretary covering a report agreed by the Evasion and Escape SubCommittee on peace-time instruction in the use of codes for use by prisoners of war. The Sub-Committee had recommended, inter alia, that codes should be taught in peace-time to selected regular personnel of all three Services. COLONEL CARLESS said that there might be a risk of the codes being compromised in the event of an indoctrinated prisoner of war being converted to Communism.
- Collection ID
- CAB159
- Conflict
- Cold War
- Countries
- China Finland Germany Sweden United Kingdom United States of America Yugoslavia
- Document Reference
- CAB 159/11/54
- Document Types
- Summary
- File Reference
- CAB 159/11
- Identifier
- 10.1080/swwf.cab159.0011.054
- Keywords
- Iron Curtain Eastern Bloc Soviet Satellite States Aircraft Security Secrecy Technology Equipment Codes Prisoners Of War Evasion Escape Military Organisation Personnel Training Telegraph Communications Communications Release Of Information Classified Documents Captured Documents German Archives Anglo-german Relations Military Intelligence Information Sharing Intelligence Channels Intelligence Distribution Allies Swedish Intelligence Services Anglo-swedish Relations Intelligence Requirements Naval Intelligence Intelligence Gathering British Intelligence Organisation Arab World Foreign Policy Intelligence Reports Cyphers
- Languages
- English
- Organizations
- Chiefs of Staff Foreign Office Joint Intelligence Bureau Joint Intelligence Committee (Middle East) Ministry of Defence Security Service Evasion and Escape Sub-Committee Joint Intelligence Sub-Committee
- Pages
- 9
- Persons Discussed
- John Gardiner Roger Hollis Stewart Menzies
- Published in
- United Kingdom
- Themes
- Intelligence Operations Intelligence Organization International Relations
