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

20 Oct 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 on Crete: of a German Air Force (GAF) warning that a British officer PoW stated that a landing operation against Crete was in preparation, on October 7; and on North Africa: that a GAF air recce of the forward front showed no change on October 19.
cyprus interrogation prisoners of war crete second world war military intelligence aerial reconnaissance government code and cypher school operations planning desert war allied strategy military commanders
Collection ID
HW1
Conflict
Second World War
Countries
Crete Cyprus
Document Reference
HW1 /990/2
Document Types
Intelligence Report
File Reference
HW1 /990
Identifier
10.1080/swwf.hw1.0990.002
Keywords
Prisoners Of War Military Commanders Interrogation Allied Strategy Operations Planning Aerial Reconnaissance Desert War
Languages
English
Organizations
Government Code and Cypher School
Pages
5
Published in
United Kingdom
Themes
Military Intelligence

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