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 North Africa: of Mussolini's views on the progress of the withdrawal of Axis forces to Sollum-Halfaya; and that a French fighter group is transferring from France to North Africa on November 7-9; and on the Russian Front: that Hitler orders the destruction of oil refineries in Baku, on November 5.
- Collection ID
- HW1
- Conflict
- Second World War
- Countries
- France Italy Sardinia
- Document Reference
- HW1 /1060/2
- Document Types
- Intelligence Report
- File Reference
- HW1 /1060
- Identifier
- 10.1080/swwf.hw1.1060.002
- Keywords
- German Withdrawal Desert War Troop Movements French Air Force Air Raids Industry Oil Eastern Front
- Languages
- English
- Organizations
- Comando Supremo Government Code and Cypher School
- Pages
- 12
- Persons Discussed
- Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Erwin Rommel
- Published in
- United Kingdom
- Themes
- Military Intelligence
