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

26 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 contains a message from C to Major General Ismay: that in Europe, the German Air Force (GAF) ordered extra security against sabotage in view of intended Allied landings, on March 23 (with the Prime Minister's (PM) instruction for the Chiefs of Staff (COS) committee to see this and a note that COS were most interested, from March 28).
france belgium germany netherlands soviet union second world war contingency planning military intelligence coastal defence sabotage holland chiefs of staff government code and cypher school predicting enemy intentions hastings ismay second front
Collection ID
HW1
Conflict
Second World War
Countries
Belgium France Germany Holland Netherlands Soviet Union
Document Reference
HW1 /448/2
Document Types
Intelligence Report Memorandum
File Reference
HW1 /448
Identifier
10.1080/swwf.hw1.0448.002
Keywords
Second Front Sabotage Predicting Enemy Intentions Contingency Planning Coastal Defence
Languages
English
Organizations
Chiefs of Staff Government Code and Cypher School
Pages
7
Persons Discussed
Hastings Ismay
Published in
United Kingdom
Themes
Military Intelligence

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