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Description

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 West Europe: of the Allies bringing up additional forces to smash through the West Wall from the Saarlautern bridgehead, on December 6; Naval Headlines; from the Japanese Minister for Foreign Affairs to all posts, instructions for propaganda on U.S. interference in China, from November 4; from the French representative in Moscow to the French Legation in Athens, that General de Gaulle is to visit Athens, on December 5; and from the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs to all stations, noting Allied discord on the Polish situation, on December 1, with a comment from the Prime Minister (PM) to the Foreign Secretary.

Keywords

predicting enemy intentions, Western Front, Allied strategy, troop movements, breakthroughs, naval intelligence, German U-boats, commando raids, Pacific War, Japanese navy, convoys, diplomatic intelligence, American-Chinese relations, military commanders, Chinese Nationalists, American foreign policy, French government, Anglo-Soviet relations, Polish government