A file of correspondence and intercepted communications concerning breaches of security. The documents include several letters warning about cavalier treatment of confidential sources of information, posing a threat to their existence, and several more complaining about similar behaviour regarding classified documents. The file also contains a copy of an intercepted telegram sent to Tokyo in 1940 by the Japanese ambassador in Cairo, giving information about Anglo-French strategy in the Mediterranean gleaned from conversations with senior generals, along with British orders restricting conversations with Japanese diplomatic personnel.
- Collection ID
- FO1093
- Conflict
- Second World War
- Countries
- Bolivia Bulgaria Egypt France Germany Great Britain India Iraq Palestine Russia Syria Turkey
- Document Reference
- FO 1093/310/2
- Document Types
- Correspondence Intelligence Report
- File Reference
- FO 1093/310
- Identifier
- 10.1080/swwf.fo1093.0310.002
- Keywords
- Secrecy Informants Intelligence Gathering Security Classified Documents Military Intelligence Communications Interception Leakage Of Information
- Languages
- English
- Organizations
- Foreign Office Government Code and Cypher School Ministry of Economic Warfare Permanent Under-Secretary's Department Secret Intelligence Service
- Pages
- 27
- Persons Discussed
- Alexander Cadogan Gladwyn Jebb Patrick Reilly Horace Wilson
- Published in
- United Kingdom
- Themes
- Intelligence Organization Surveillance
