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

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 Southern Europe: a German Air Force (GAF) situation report for part of September 11, noting that German tanks penetrated Vietri; shipping sightings north of Ustica and in the Gulf of Taranto; and attacks against Allied targets; a German agent's report of reconnaissance on Piambino, describing no more German resistance, and that the morale of the Italian troops is fair - the agent suggests an army operation against the town as soon as possible, on September 11; that the Italian 31st Corps formerly at Catanzaro, is not to observe the Armistice, on September 10; that the 2nd Air Corps take over 60 Italian transport aircraft on a Rome airfield, on September 11; that the GAF in Sardinia orders all airborne Italian aircraft to be shot down; that Italian forces oppose GAF attempts to destroy airfields; and that all Sardinian airfields, except two, are closed as at 1830 on September 11; an estimate of the ratio of Germans to Italians and partisans on Corsica, on September 11; and on preparations for blocking the entrances of Leghorn and Spezia harbours in the event of Allied landings, on September 11; on the Russian Front: that the Admiral Commanding the Black Sea was requested to supply sea transport to evacuate Berdyansk, on September 10; Naval Headlines, covering a U-boat being damaged while attacking a convoy 400 miles west of the Spanish coast; that Genoa and Leghorn were seized by German forces; that a bombardment of Piombino is planned for September 12; and that the German Sea Transport Office at Bastia was attacked by the Italians, on September 11.