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: battle reports from the Italian Front for April 21 from the Medelana and Monte Santo areas south-east of Ferrara involving elements of the 1st Parachute Division and the 76th Panzer Corps; on Western Europe: that Kesselring orders the senior officers of Army Group G to report to him on April 18 as he accuses its Grafenwoehr's Battle Group, the 82nd Corps and the 17th SS Panzer Grenadier Division of major deficiencies in leadership, leading to German reverses in the Nuremburg area; of German plans to resist the Allied advance from the Grafenwoehr area, to involve elements of the 1st and 7th Armies, on April 19; a German High Command propaganda directive for April 17, that Truman replaces Roosevelt, but that German propaganda reports should be expertly muddled so that all possibilities remained open; that Hitler claims the exclusive right to order the destruction of war gasses and cancels all previous orders for such destruction from military sources, on April 16; that the Georgian mutineers on Texel Island continue to hold out against German forces, on April 19; and that the Home Defence Force in the Berlin area is to transfer 200 machine-guns and 5,000 rifles to the Hermann Goering Parachute Division south-east of Berlin, on April 19; Naval Headlines; from the French ambassador in Moscow, on the situation in Poland, and the Yalta talks, on April 16; from the German ambassador in Madrid, a report of April 16 from Berlin informing the ambassador that the German Foreign Office had been dispersed to the Lake Constance, Garmisch-Partenkirchen and Salzburg areas; and from the Japanese ambassador in Berlin, describing talks with Ribbentrop on April 13, on preparations for the withdrawal of German High Command and the government from Berlin to the south, and noting that Hitler is still hoping to mount a counter-attack on the Western Front and to repulse the Soviet push from the Oder.