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Government Code and Cypher School: Signals Intelligence Passed to the Prime Minister, Messages and Correspondence

7 Sep 1941

A file of signals intelligence reports, messages, and correspondence issued by the Government Code and Cypher School and sent by the head ('C') of the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) to the Prime Minister, Winston Churchill. This file includes the following reports: on operational orders sent from the 4th Air Fleet to units in Romania outlining the situation in Army Group South's area of operations; on the German front line as of September 6; of the crash of a Focke-Wulf Condor aircraft soon after take-off for unknown reasons; on the transfer of glider personnel from Belgium to the 11th Air Corps in eastern Germany on September 1; and on German Air Force (GAF) instructions concerning forced landings in countries of various degrees of neutrality. This file also includes a Naval Headlines report of U-boat activity; the expected return of the cruiser Admiral Scheer from Oslo to the Baltic on September 7; that all land-lines of the 3rd Defence Division (with responsibility from Cherbourg to Lorient) had been put out of action by aerial attack; and that the ship SS Oslebshausen was sunk by an aerial torpedo attack off Egersund.
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Collection ID
HW1
Conflict
Second World War
Countries
Belgium Bulgaria Croatia Finland France Germany Gibraltar Hungary Iceland Ireland Italy Norway Portugal Romania Saudi Arabia Spain Sweden Switzerland Turkey Ukraine
Document Reference
HW1 /53/2
Document Types
Intelligence Report
File Reference
HW1 /53
Identifier
10.1080/swwf.hw1.0053.002
Keywords
Military Situation Reports Operation Barbarossa German Army German Air Force Aircraft Casualties Troop Movements Neutrality Naval Operations German U-boats Battle Of The Atlantic Convoys Invasion Of The Soviet Union
Languages
English
Organizations
Government Code and Cypher School
Pages
14
Published in
United Kingdom
Themes
Military Intelligence

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