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

16 Mar 1943

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 report on North Africa: that the 21st Panzer Division considers on March 15 that a specific operation will be possible on or about March 20 but unfortunately the Italians wished to retreat on the evening of the 15th and their future moves were doubtful.
second world war military intelligence government code and cypher school operations planning german army invasion of french north africa
Collection ID
HW1
Conflict
Second World War
Document Reference
HW1 /1472/2
Document Types
Intelligence Report
File Reference
HW1 /1472
Identifier
10.1080/swwf.hw1.1472.002
Keywords
Operations Planning German Army Invasion Of French North Africa
Languages
English
Organizations
Government Code and Cypher School
Pages
4
Published in
United Kingdom
Themes
Military Intelligence