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: that a disbanded German battle group lists considerable successes at the Anzio bridgehead during the period of January 24 - February 15; of the German Air Force (GAF) at Perugia's rail shipment details and the cutting of the Rome - Florence railway line, on February 16; and a GAF South-east Command general intelligence appreciation of the war as at February 15, covering the German bombing of London, and the situation in North Africa, Italy and the Balkans; on Southern Europe: 2 copies of a signal from Bletchley to the Director of MI-14 and Deputy Director of Intelligence 3 (DDI-3) on the intercept of a German secret message, on February 1, that the German intelligence authorities at Bihac and Mostar were to ascertain the likely loyalties of treaty-bound Chetniks and other armed nationalist formations towards German forces in the event of Allied operations against the Balkan area; Naval Headlines; and from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Berlin, a relay to all embassies on February 12 of a message of February 11 from the German ambassador in Ankara, following talks with probably the Turkish Foreign Minister, in which the ambassador claimed that Turkish sympathies were now with Germany and that Anglo/Turkish relations were bad.