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

23 May 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 Miss Pettigrew for the Prime Minister (PM); and the following correspondence: from the Chinese minister in Ankara, forwarding Turkish information on Japanese losses of men and materials, on May 18; from the Japanese minister in Budapest, on Hungarian foreign policy, as of May 13; from the Japanese minister in Madrid, 'TO' intelligence from Washington, describing a dispute between Churchill and Roosevelt over the priorities of a European second front and the war against Japan, on May 13 and 19; from the Japanese Foreign Ministry, on a U.S. landing on Attu, and that the ambassador at Kuibyshev is to seek assurances that the Soviets will not give bases to the U.S.; and a holding reply from Kuibyshev, on May 16-17; from the Japanese Foreign Ministry, that representatives are to pay attention to food supply and its effect on morale, on May 17. This file also contains a message from the Code and Cypher School (CSS) to Washington for the PM, on May 24: on Italian and Turkish diplomatic telegrams to be seen; that the Commander in Chief (C in C) of the Mediterranean thinks that the French admiral will keep his word and not scuttle his fleet, on May 23; and from the CSS to Washington for the PM, on May 24: that on May 22 Godefroy told Laval that his decision to move the French fleet to West Africa was taken after prolonged heart searchings.
china turkey mexico france japan bulgaria malta hungary portugal united states of america greece germany russia international relations italy romania spain great britain palestine second world war food supplies security service axis powers eastern front american strategy edward bridges free french government code and cypher school german war effort franklin delano roosevelt german strategy diplomatic intelligence allied strategy shipping losses economic substitutes hungarian foreign policy japanese war effort
Collection ID
HW1
Conflict
Second World War
Countries
Bulgaria China France Germany Great Britain Greece Hungary Italy Japan Malta Mexico Palestine Portugal Romania Russia Spain Turkey United States of America
Document Reference
HW1 /1704/2
Document Types
Intelligence Report
File Reference
HW1 /1704
Identifier
10.1080/swwf.hw1.1704.002
Keywords
Japanese War Effort Shipping Losses Diplomatic Intelligence Economic Substitutes Hungarian Foreign Policy Allied Strategy Free French American Strategy German War Effort Food Supplies Axis Powers German Strategy Eastern Front
Languages
English
Organizations
Government Code and Cypher School Security Service
Pages
18
Persons Discussed
Edward Bridges Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Published in
United Kingdom
Themes
International Relations

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