A file of reports and memoranda concerning the BBC Monitoring Service, which produced reports on radio broadcasts in foreign countries. The documents in this file include a report from July 1945, summarising subjects covered in broadcasts from eastern Europe, including the Soviet Union, Poland, Germany, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, Romania and Bulgaria. These broadcasts cover a number of areas, including internal conditions in these countries, political, industrial and agricultural intelligence and relations between various nations. The file also includes memoranda discussing the need for a review of the Monitoring Service; memoranda debating future areas requiring coverage; and letters discussing the circulation of these reports to representatives of foreign nations, including the Soviet Union and China.
- Collection ID
- FO1093
- Conflict
- Second World War
- Countries
- Albania Argentina Austria Belgium Bosnia Bosnia and Herzegovina Bulgaria Canada Chile Cuba Czechoslovakia Denmark Egypt England Finland France Germany Great Britain Greece Herzegovina Holland Hungary Iran Iraq Italy Lebanon Luxembourg Nazi Germany Netherlands Norway Palestine Persia Poland Portugal Romania Russia Serbia Slovenia Soviet Union Spain Sweden Switzerland Syria Turkey Ukraine United States of America USSR Yugoslavia
- Document Reference
- FO 1093/343/2
- Document Types
- Report
- File Reference
- FO 1093/343
- Identifier
- 10.1080/swwf.fo1093.0343.002
- Keywords
- Surveillance Broadcast Services Soviet Satellite States Soviet Society Politics Industry Intelligence Gathering Intelligence Requirements Intelligence Funding Intelligence Distribution
- Languages
- English
- Organizations
- Foreign Office United Nations Permanent Under-Secretary's Department
- Pages
- 94
- Persons Discussed
- Victor Cavendish-Bentinck Dwight Eisenhower Hermann Göring Adolf Hitler Edward King-Salter Stewart Menzies Benito Mussolini Josef Stalin Josip Tito
- Published in
- United Kingdom
- Themes
- Surveillance International Relations
