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: a German secret service report from Finland that seventy-five British transport aircraft had brought troops to Kandalaksha; a 5th Air Fleet request for information about the housing of aircraft on Finnish territory during the winter; a report that the 17th Army was attacking Kharkov, and that the 1st Panzer Group and the 6th Army were fighting strong Russian attempts to break their encirclement; a communiqué from German Air Force (GAF) operational staff to the air attaché with a German general in Zagreb summarising Western and Eastern Front activities; and a description of a mine-laying operation, possibly between Thessaly and Leros, by the auxiliary minelayer Bulgaria.
- Collection ID
- HW1
- Conflict
- Second World War
- Countries
- Belgium Bulgaria Finland France Germany Holland Libya Netherlands Norway Palestine
- Document Reference
- HW1 /80/2
- Document Types
- Intelligence Report
- File Reference
- HW1 /80
- Identifier
- 10.1080/swwf.hw1.0080.002
- Keywords
- British Army Transportation Aircraft Prisoners Of War Interrogation German Air Force Military Situation Reports Operation Barbarossa German Army Red Army Encirclement Air Raids Mines Submarines Friendly Fire Invasion Of The Soviet Union
- Languages
- English
- Organizations
- Government Code and Cypher School
- Pages
- 15
- Published in
- United Kingdom
- Themes
- Military Intelligence
