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

21 Oct 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 includes the following reports on Southern Europe: that over-crowding of landing craft at Leghorn gives rise to concern owing to the weakness of the flak protection, on October 18; and on South-east Europe: that the operation from Kos is to be carried out according to Hitler, on October 18.
italy ports second world war military intelligence landing craft adolf hitler nazi leadership government code and cypher school operations planning air raid precautions anti-aircraft defence occupied greece
Collection ID
HW1
Conflict
Second World War
Countries
Italy
Document Reference
HW1 /2134/2
Document Types
Intelligence Report
File Reference
HW1 /2134
Identifier
10.1080/swwf.hw1.2134.002
Keywords
Anti-aircraft Defence Air Raid Precautions Ports Landing Craft Nazi Leadership Operations Planning Occupied Greece
Languages
English
Organizations
Government Code and Cypher School
Pages
6
Persons Discussed
Adolf Hitler
Published in
United Kingdom
Themes
Military Intelligence

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