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

8 Sep 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 Prime Minister (PM) suggesting an enquiry into a serious leak of intelligence information: that the Daily Telegraph of September 10 reported on the ill health of Rommel; originally the Turkish ambassador in London reported the ill health of Rommel and the killing of von Bismarck on September 3 (see also 674 and 672).
turkey second world war disease casualties military intelligence edward bridges government code and cypher school press reports german army erwin rommel desert war military commanders
Collection ID
HW1
Conflict
Second World War
Countries
Turkey
Document Reference
HW1 /878/2
Document Types
Intelligence Report Other
File Reference
HW1 /878
Identifier
10.1080/swwf.hw1.0878.002
Keywords
Press Reports Military Commanders Disease Desert War German Army Casualties
Languages
English
Organizations
Government Code and Cypher School
Pages
3
Persons Discussed
Edward Bridges Erwin Rommel
Published in
United Kingdom
Themes
Military Intelligence

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