A file of correspondence discussing wireless communications and interception. Subjects discussed in this file include the introduction of a new scrambling device on German international telephone lines, and the necessity of funding a British counter-measure; a vast increase in Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) radio traffic due to the expansion of the Special Operations Executive (SOE), and the need to expand the existing clandestine wireless facilities; and the problems caused by a shortage of trained wireless operators.
- Collection ID
- FO1093
- Conflict
- Second World War
- Countries
- Norway
- Document Reference
- FO 1093/312/2
- Document Types
- Correspondence
- File Reference
- FO 1093/312
- Identifier
- 10.1080/swwf.fo1093.0312.002
- Keywords
- Wireless Communications Communications Interception Technology Personnel
- Languages
- English
- Organizations
- Chiefs of Staff Foreign Office Ministry of Economic Warfare Special Operations Executive Permanent Under-Secretary's Department Secret Intelligence Service
- Pages
- 26
- Persons Discussed
- Alexander Cadogan Gladwyn Jebb Stewart Menzies Frank Nelson
- Published in
- United Kingdom
- Themes
- Signals Intelligence Code-breaking Surveillance
