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: a BONIFACE summary from Brigadier Hollis for the Prime Minister (PM); on South Europe: that the German Air Force (GAF) are to reconnoitre for an approach of Allied landing craft to Calabria, on August 29; that the Italian Admiralty order motor torpedo craft to patrol the southern coast of Italy, on August 29; that Crotone-Catanzaro rail traffic was completely interrupted by bombing, on August 28; that Crotone railway station was destroyed, on August 29; of serious damage caused in a raid on Tamburi, on August 28; of a raid on shipping at Taranto on August 28; that GAF aircraft are to be tested for limpet mines following the discovery of sabotage at airfields, on August 28; and of the 39th Panzer Division, previously on the Russian Front, arriving in Italy, on August 26; on South-east Europe: of comments by the Commander in Chief (C-in-C) for the Southeast on proposals for an Italian withdrawal from Dalmatia, on August 24; and of the postal service from Italy to Greece being interrupted by the bombing of the Rome-Brindisi railway lines, on August 28-29; and on West Europe: that a GAF night fighter unit transferred from the Mediterranean to Brussels, on August 28.