Premium

20.500.12592/77d6p7

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

8 Apr 1945

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: from the Japananese military attaché in Madrid, a report of a meeting on April 5 with the German military attaché, noting a very pessimistic view of the war, that Germany appeared to be finished, and that the German attaché expected some serious incident would occur in the next week or so; from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Berlin, a propaganda update of April 3, with instructions to push the line that the Soviet Union had plans to expand in the Baltic, taking in Denmark and Sweden, and to discuss a dispute about votes at the San Francisco Conference but do not exaggerate disputes between the Soviet Union and the U.K., these differences obviously not being deep as Mrs Churchill had gone to Moscow; and from the Japanese ambassador in Moscow, a confidential war report received from Tokyo quoting major developments in the Far East since mid-March, on April 2.
india china japan germany censorship denmark indochina international relations italy propaganda psychological warfare sweden second world war german government security service secret intelligence service naval operations foreign office edward bridges government code and cypher school guy liddell desmond morton german propaganda military situation reports pacific war german-japanese relations allied powers defeatism
Collection ID
HW1
Conflict
Second World War
Countries
China Denmark Germany India Indochina Italy Japan Sweden
Document Reference
HW1 /3688/2
Document Types
Intelligence Report
File Reference
HW1 /3688
Identifier
10.1080/swwf.hw1.3688.002
Keywords
German-japanese Relations Defeatism German Government German Propaganda Military Situation Reports Pacific War Naval Operations Allied Powers
Languages
English
Organizations
Foreign Office Secret Intelligence Service Security Service Government Code and Cypher School
Pages
6
Persons Discussed
Edward Bridges Guy Liddell Desmond Morton
Published in
United Kingdom
Themes
International Relations Propaganda Censorship Psychological Warfare

Related Topics

All