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

10 Jan 1944

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: a BONIFACE report for Mr Loxley; a BONIFACE report for the Deputy Prime Minister (PM); a signal from the PM to the Supreme Commander in the Mediterranean referencing a paragraph in a BONIFACE report of January 9 (see 5309); two copies of a signal to the PM; a BONIFACE/SUNSET report from the Code and Cypher School (CSS) to Hut 3 signalled as SLICK 27 to Group Captain Winterbotham; on Southern Europe: of the movement of the 3rd Panzer Grenadier Division from the Rome area to the Adriatic coast, on January 6 and 9; on South-east Europe: of plans for carrying out a concentrated attack on guerrilla supply traffic, on January 9; and on the Russian Front: that the 17th Army anticipates fresh Russian attempts to land in Crimea simultaneously with an assault from the Bakssy bridgehead, on January 8.
france germany croatia guerrilla warfare italy shipping ports railways second world war casualties partisans military intelligence west germany adolf hitler eastern front military dispositions government code and cypher school operations planning german army predicting enemy intentions military situation reports troop movements italian campaign military commanders soviet strategy occupied yugoslavia
Collection ID
HW1
Conflict
Second World War
Countries
Croatia France Germany Italy West Germany
Document Reference
HW1 /2324/2
Document Types
Intelligence Report
File Reference
HW1 /2324
Identifier
10.1080/swwf.hw1.2324.002
Keywords
German Army Military Dispositions Troop Movements Operations Planning Guerrilla Warfare Partisans Military Commanders Occupied Yugoslavia Ports Shipping Predicting Enemy Intentions Soviet Strategy Eastern Front Military Situation Reports Italian Campaign Casualties Railways
Languages
English
Organizations
Government Code and Cypher School
Pages
25
Persons Discussed
Adolf Hitler
Published in
United Kingdom
Themes
Military Intelligence

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