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Intelligence

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Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus

Found in 343 Collections and/or Records:

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(Untitled), [Nov] [1911]

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/4/21-24
Scope and Contents

Admiralty memorandum on German naval construction, particularly the new Navy Law, allowing for three capital ships, 15,000 men and 13,000,000 pounds spending. [Typescript, with ms annotations].

Dates: [Nov] [1911]
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 07 Jan [1914]

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/6A/78
Scope and Contents

Minute from WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] to the Director of the Intelligence Division, Admiralty [Captain (William) Reginald Hall], asking for a comparison of expenditure on the first instalments of the British and German 1914-15 naval programmes. [Carbon].

Dates: 07 Jan [1914]
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 10 Sep 1941

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/22B/112-113
Scope and Contents

Letter from WSC to the Prime Minister of Norway [Johan Nygaardsvold] asking him to reconsider a decision to withdraw Captain Rocher-Lund from Stockholm [Sweden] since he is very useful to the British Intelligence Services.

Dates: 10 Sep 1941
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 18 Nov 1941 - 21 Nov 1941

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/25/44-46
Scope and Contents

Letters from Field-Marshal Sir John Dill [Chief of General Staff] to WSC explaining that Lieutenant-Colonel Dudley Clarke was attempting to disseminate false information amongst German-controlled elements in Spain.

Dates: 18 Nov 1941 - 21 Nov 1941
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 04 Dec 1941

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/25/47-52
Scope and Contents

Letter from Alan Hillgarth [Naval Attache at Madrid, Spain] to Charles Thompson [Personal Assistant to WSC] with photographs of Lieutenant-Colonel Dudley Clarke dressed as a woman and after he was allowed to change.

Dates: 04 Dec 1941
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 22 May 1941

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/27/2
Scope and Contents

Note from Desmond Morton [Personal Assistant to WSC] (War Office, Whitehall [London]) to WSC informing him that Lieutenant J M Langley is employed as a liaison officer between MI6 and the War Office and co-ordinates escapes by prisoners of war. Typescript signed with initials.

Dates: 22 May 1941
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 26 May 1941

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/27/3
Scope and Contents

Note from WSC to Desmond Morton [Personal Assistant to WSC] informing him that [Lieutenant J M Langley] has been expressing "exceedingly defeatist views". Typescript signed with initials.

Dates: 26 May 1941
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 29 May 1941

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/27/4-5
Scope and Contents

Note from Desmond Morton [Personal Assistant to WSC] to WSC concerning "undesirable" opinions expressed by J M Langley. He informs WSC that "C" [Major-General Sir Stewart Menzies, Head of the Secret Intelligence Service, MI6] will not employ Langley abroad although Langley will continue with secret service work. Signed typescript annotated with a note by WSC "Why not give him a hint".

Dates: 29 May 1941
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 13 Jan 1941

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/31A/2
Scope and Contents

Personal Minute from WSC to the Secretary of State for Colonial Affairs [1st Lord Lloyd of Dolobran] asking him how he intends to reply to the Duke of Windsor [earlier King Edward VIII and Edward Prince of Wales] about [Axel] Wenner-Gren [suspected of being pro-Nazi]. WSC encloses an extract from a letter sent to Wenner-Gren suggesting that he should meet a family in Nassau [Bahamas] who have a "sympathetic understanding for totalitarian ideas." Typescript.

Dates: 13 Jan 1941
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 13 Jan 1941

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/31A/3
Scope and Contents Minute from John Colville [Private Secretary to WSC] to [Christopher] Eastwood [Private Secretary to Secretary of State for Colonial Affairs] marked "most secret" reporting that [Harry] Hopkins [Special Adviser and Assistant to the President of the United States] had said that the cruise the Duke of Windsor [earlier King Edward VIII and Edward Prince of Wales] had taken with [Axel] Wenner-Gren had had a "deplorable effect". Hopkins noted that the United States consider Wenner-Gren a...
Dates: 13 Jan 1941
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 21 Jan 1941

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/31A/4
Scope and Contents Letter from Christopher Eastwood [Private Secretary to Secretary of State for Colonial Affairs] (Colonial Office [London]) to [John] Martin [Private Secretary to WSC] marked "secret" discussing possible courses of action to be taken about the association between the Duke of Windsor [earlier King Edward VIII and Edward Prince of Wales] and Axel] Wenner-Gren [a suspected pro-Nazi]. He explains that [1st] Lord Lloyd [of Dolobran], Secretary of State for the Colonies does not want to write to...
Dates: 21 Jan 1941
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 22 Jan 1941

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/31A/5
Scope and Contents

Copy of a letter from John Martin [Private Secretary to WSC] to [Christopher] Eastwood [Private Secretary to Secretary of State for Colonial Affairs] informing him that WSC agrees that a United States agent should warn the Duke of Windsor [earlier King Edward VIII and Edward Prince of Wales] about the [pro-Nazi] activities of Axel Wenner-Gren. Carbon typescript signed with initials.

Dates: 22 Jan 1941
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 20 Mar 1941

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/31A/6
Scope and Contents Copy of a letter from [?Valentine] Vivian to K Robinson of the Colonial Office marked "secret" enclosing a mutilated extract from an interview given by the Duke of Windsor [earlier King Edward VIII and Edward Prince of Wales] to Liberty magazine. The interview "infuriates heads of news services" as the Duke condemns the "Lend Lease" agreement between Great Britain and the United States; states that the German people want [Adolf] Hitler in power; and comments on the failure of the first...
Dates: 20 Mar 1941
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), [Nov] [1939]

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 19/2A/101
Scope and Contents

Copy of first page of a letter from WSC to Maurice [?Hankey] reporting on an interview with [Sir Stewart] Menzies [Head of the Secret Intelligence Service, MI6] and discussing an enquiry into the Secret Service. Unsigned carbon.

Dates: [Nov] [1939]
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open.
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(Untitled), 19 Nov 1939

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 19/2A/102-107
Scope and Contents

Letter from WSC to Sir Alexander Cadogan [Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs] on replacing Sir Hugh Sinclair as Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service with Captain [Gerald] Muirhead-Gould RN; also the need to improve Admiralty intelligence services, with note to Private Secretary on distribution. [carbon and draft].

Dates: 19 Nov 1939
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open.
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(Untitled), 09 Nov 1939

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 19/2B/112-113
Scope and Contents

Letter from Sir Alexander Cadogan [Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs] to Sir Archibald Carter [Permanent Secretary of Admiralty] asking for nominations from WSC and [Admiral of the Fleet Sir] Dudley Pound [1st Sea Lord] for Admiral [Sir Hugh] Sinclair's replacement as Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service.

Dates: 09 Nov 1939
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open.
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(Untitled), 21 Nov 1939

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 19/2B/120-124
Scope and Contents

Letter from [1st] Lord Vansittart [Chief Diplomatic Adviser to Foreign Secretary] to WSC, enclosing copy of letter to Sir Kingsley Wood, Secretary of State for Air, containing information from a private source on German air and naval capabilities; with letter of thanks from WSC to Vansittart.

Dates: 21 Nov 1939
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open.
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(Untitled), 01 Nov 1939 - 30 Nov 1939

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 19/3/3
Scope and Contents First Lord of the Admiralty's printed minutes, November 1939.Includes texts of minutes from WSC (sometimes annotated with additional printed information) to: Deputy Chief of Naval Staff [Rear-Admiral Tom Phillips]; [Permanent] Secretary [Sir Archibald Carter]; the Sea Lords, particularly [3rd Sea Lord and] Controller [Rear-Admiral Bruce Fraser] and 1st Sea Lord [Admiral of the Fleet Sir Dudley Pound]; various naval directors; Professor [F A] Lindemann [later 1st Lord Cherwell] and Major...
Dates: 01 Nov 1939 - 30 Nov 1939
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 25 Feb 1942

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/52/17-18
Scope and Contents Copy of a letter from WSC to President [Roosevelt] referring to a late night discussion on the importance of co-operation between UK and US "cipher people". He says that although naval ciphers are frankly discussed between the two Intelligence Services, the UK appears to lack information about the US diplomatic and military ciphers and that he had ordered intelligence work on US ciphers to cease once the two countries became allies. He asks the President to handle the issue personally and...
Dates: 25 Feb 1942
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 08 Feb 1942-09 Feb 1942

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/52/19-21
Scope and Contents

Letter from WSC to "C" [Major-General Sir Stewart Menzies, Head of the Secret Intelligence Service, MI6] on memorandum [CHAR 20/52/17-18]; notes that the United States has British cipher machines.

Dates: 08 Feb 1942-09 Feb 1942
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 25 Jul 1942

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/54A/38
Scope and Contents

Letter from WSC to 3rd Lord Selborne [Minister of Economic Warfare, earlier Lord Wolmer] thanking him for the Quarterly Progress Report of SOE [Special Operations Executive] activities.

Dates: 25 Jul 1942
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 23 Nov 1942

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/54C/235
Scope and Contents

Letter from WSC to 3rd Lord Selborne [Minister of Economic Warfare, earlier Lord Wolmer] on reprisals against SOE [Special Operations Executive] to be discussed with the Foreign Secretary [Anthony Eden, later 1st Lord Avon].

Dates: 23 Nov 1942
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 28 Feb 1941

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/57A/5-6
Scope and Contents

Minute from Desmond Morton [Personal Assistant to WSC] to WSC informing him that Ian Colvin is due to start work for the Ministry of Information arranging broadcast programmes to the German army for propaganda purposes and that [William] Deakin has been interviewed for intelligence work for SO2. Signed typescript annotated by WSC.

Dates: 28 Feb 1941
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 31 Jan 1941

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/57A/7
Scope and Contents

Minute from Desmond Morton [Personal Assistant to WSC] to WSC discussing the possibility of Ian Colvin doing intelligence work relating to secret propaganda to the German armed forces. Signed typescript annotated by WSC.

Dates: 31 Jan 1941
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), [1927]

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/152/60-65
Scope and Contents

Statement by Sir William Joynson-Hicks [later Lord Brentford] on the discovery by the Government of documents showing that the Russian trade delegation has been used as a cover for subversive activities in Britain by Soviet agents. Another copy at CHAR 2/152/66-71. Another version at CHAR 2/152/72-82.

Dates: [1927]
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