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

6 Jan 1943

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), regarding a report on North Africa: that the 5th Panzer Army was ordered to hand over 11 recently delivered tanks to the Panzer Army under Rommel, on January 2; with the Prime Minister's (PM's) comment on this to the Chief of the Imperial General Staff (CIGS).
second world war military intelligence tanks military organisation stewart menzies government code and cypher school german army erwin rommel desert war
Collection ID
HW1
Conflict
Second World War
Document Reference
HW1 /1288/2
Document Types
Intelligence Report Memorandum
File Reference
HW1 /1288
Identifier
10.1080/swwf.hw1.1288.002
Keywords
Military Organisation German Army Desert War Tanks
Languages
English
Organizations
Government Code and Cypher School
Pages
5
Persons Discussed
Stewart Menzies Erwin Rommel
Published in
United Kingdom
Themes
Military Intelligence