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: Naval Headlines 480, covering Mediterranean shipping; on North Africa: of the cargo of the Zara; that Rommel reports that the Panzer Army is exhausted, with no motor transport available for withdrawal, and that annihilation must be faced, on November 2; that Kesselring seeks an immediate appreciation on November 2; and that a German Air Force (GAF) staff has been formed to support the defence of line communications, on November 2.
- Collection ID
- HW1
- Conflict
- Second World War
- Countries
- Gibraltar Libya
- Document Reference
- HW1 /1038/2
- Document Types
- Intelligence Report
- File Reference
- HW1 /1038
- Identifier
- 10.1080/swwf.hw1.1038.002
- Keywords
- Warships Italian Navy Military Supplies Fuel Naval Intelligence Shipping Losses Aerial Attacks On Ships Royal Navy Convoys German Withdrawal Second Battle Of El Alamein
- Languages
- English
- Organizations
- Comando Supremo Government Code and Cypher School
- Pages
- 7
- Persons Discussed
- Harold Alexander Erwin Rommel
- Published in
- United Kingdom
- Themes
- Military Intelligence
