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

11 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 Director of Military Intelligence (DMI), with a comment from the Prime Minister (PM) for the Chief of the Imperial General Staff (CIGS) (see also 707), on the following report on North Africa: that a Panzer Army interrogation of PoWs reveals fore-knowledge of the German plan of attack, on September 11.
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Collection ID
HW1
Conflict
Second World War
Countries
Egypt
Document Reference
HW1 /890/2
Document Types
Intelligence Report
File Reference
HW1 /890
Identifier
10.1080/swwf.hw1.0890.002
Keywords
Security Interrogation Prisoners Of War British Army Desert War Italian Army Leakage Of Information
Languages
English
Organizations
Government Code and Cypher School
Pages
4
Published in
United Kingdom
Themes
Military Intelligence

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