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

4 Mar 1942

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 Air Force (GAF) report for March 2 on North Africa; intelligence on GAF plans to attack railways from March 2; on possible GAF mining of the Suez Canal on March 2-3; a report that the GAF regarded a particular RAF PoW as a prolific source of information on March 2; on GAF reconnaissance and operations on March 2; a GAF report from March 2 on GAF reconnaissance, operations and intentions; part of a GAF reconnaissance report from March 2; intelligence on Hitler's orders in Norway and Field Marshal List's plan to inspect defence measures from February 26; a report on GAF efforts to fortify aerodromes in the Ukraine, from February 28; messages from the Japanese ambassador in Berlin on German offers of assistance to repair a oil refinery from February 26; from the Japanese minister in Sofia, forwarding Bulgarian reports on Libya, Egypt and Turkey, on February 27; from the Japanese minister in Stockholm on Swedish views on the Yellow Peril, on February 27; from Lisbon to the Portuguese ambassador in London of the Irish chargé's views on relations with Britain and the U.S., on March 1; and from the Turkish military attaché in Kuibyshev on developments on the Russian Front, from February 24.
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Collection ID
HW1
Conflict
Second World War
Countries
Australia Crete Egypt England Germany Great Britain India Ireland Italy Japan Libya Malta Northern Ireland Norway Portugal Russia Singapore Turkey Ukraine United States of America
Document Reference
HW1 /386/2
Document Types
Intelligence Report
File Reference
HW1 /386
Identifier
10.1080/swwf.hw1.0386.002
Keywords
German Air Force Tanks Casualties Aircraft Operations Planning Military Operations Railways Italian Air Force Air Raids Conferences Suez Canal Mines Royal Air Force Intelligence Gathering Interrogation Prisoners Of War Naval Warfare Aerial Reconnaissance German Navy Italian Navy Military Dispositions Photographic Reconnaissance Airfields Submarines Defence Coastal Defence Fortifications Oil Diplomatic Officials Anglo-egyptian Relations Turkish Neutrality Colonies Empire Propaganda Pacific War Neutrality Soviet Foreign Policy
Languages
English
Organizations
Foreign Office Security Service Government Code and Cypher School
Pages
34
Persons Discussed
Edward Bridges Adolf Hitler Erwin Rommel
Published in
United Kingdom
Themes
Military Intelligence International Relations

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