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

2 Apr 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 the Director of Military Intelligence (DMI); a report on North Africa: on a German message that gives the location of Rommel's headquarters; with the Prime Minister (PM) warning about not compromising this source by action; see 9105; and there is a hand-written note on the coversheet that the Chief of the Imperial General Staff (CIGS) has read this.
italy second world war military intelligence government code and cypher school german army desert war military commanders
Collection ID
HW1
Conflict
Second World War
Countries
Italy
Document Reference
HW1 /467/2
Document Types
Intelligence Report Memorandum
File Reference
HW1 /467
Identifier
10.1080/swwf.hw1.0467.002
Keywords
German Army Military Commanders Desert War
Languages
English
Organizations
Government Code and Cypher School
Pages
4
Published in
United Kingdom
Themes
Military Intelligence

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