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Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus

Found in 343 Collections and/or Records:

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(Untitled), 05 Aug 1942

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/87/8
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Telegram from WSC [Cairo, Egypt] to Deputy Prime Minister [Clement Attlee] marked "most secret and personal" informing him that false rumours about WSC's movements are being spread through special channels to confuse the enemy.

Dates: 05 Aug 1942
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(Untitled), 07 Aug 1942

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/91B/13
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Copy of a telegram from [?] Captain R F Gore Browne forwarded to Commodore Horace Norman, Brigadier Francis de Guingand [Chief of Staff to 8th Army], Group Captain A J Rankin and Director CBME, giving [an Enigma decrypt] of a German situation report for the day, including bomber attacks in the Alamein area [Egypt], information on a Long Range Desert Group unit on the northern edge of the Qattara depression, and German and Italian serviceable tank strengths.

Dates: 07 Aug 1942
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 06 [Aug] 1942 - 07 [Aug] 1942

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/91B/14-17
Scope and Contents Copy of a telegram from [?] Captain R F Gore Browne forwarded to Commodore Horace Norman, Brigadier Francis de Guingand [Chief of Staff to 8th Army], Group Captain A J Rankin and Director CBME, giving [an Enigma decrypt] of a German report on German and Italian supply routes, details of goods already transported, supply difficulties arising from shipping losses and local conditions, congestion in the harbours, and the priority given to troop movements, and an earlier enquiry into the...
Dates: 06 [Aug] 1942 - 07 [Aug] 1942
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 21 Nov 1942

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/91B/19-20
Scope and Contents Minute from [WSC] to "C" [General Sir Stewart Menzies, Head of the Secret Intelligence Service, MI6] on reducing the circulation of "Boniface" [codename for Enigma decrypts] in Britain, the Middle East and "Torch" [codename for the Allied invasion of North West Africa] Headquarters, to a new restricted circle, and also to the present circle, which would be gradually phased out. [WSC] also asks that Field Marshal Jan Smuts [Prime Minister of South Africa] should be kept fully informed with a...
Dates: 21 Nov 1942
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 21 Nov 1942

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/91B/21-22
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Copy of CHAR 20/91B/19 - 20. Carbon copy.

Dates: 21 Nov 1942
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 06 Aug 1942

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/91B/6-7
Scope and Contents Telegram from the Air Ministry to Commander-in-Chief Middle East [General Sir Harold Alexander], marked "Most Immediate", passing on a message from "Boniface" [codename for Enigma decrypts] on subjects including: the numbers of serviceable tanks possessed by the German and Italian forces; Italian infantry and artillery losses and reinforcements since the beginning of July; the German belief in an operation to convey supplies to Malta, and various supporting operations; a search by the German...
Dates: 06 Aug 1942
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 06 Aug 1942

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/91B/8-12
Scope and Contents Copy of a telegram from [?] Captain R F Gore Browne forwarded to Commodore Horace Norman, Brigadier Francis de Guingand [Chief of Staff to 8th Army], Group Captain A J Rankin and Director CBME, giving [an Enigma decrypt] of a report on the battle strength of the German Army in North Africa by divisions, showing personnel, tank strengths, guns and transports, with the same information also given in an attached table (originally separated and given to Lieutenant-General Sir Wilfrid Lindsell...
Dates: 06 Aug 1942
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 29 Jun 1943

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/102/86-87
Scope and Contents Minute from Desmond Morton [Prime Minister's Personal Assistant] to WSC reporting on a broadcast from Paris [France] in which Randolph Churchill might have been involved. He reports that he has learnt from "Most Secret sources" that the Axis Secret Service in Spain had reported an "alleged conversation" between a Lt-Col Churchill and a correspondent for an Italian newspaper, the "Popolo d'Italia". Morton reports that Lt-Col Churchill (a different person from Randolph Churchill) denies any...
Dates: 29 Jun 1943
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 01 Jul 1943 - 31 Jul 1943

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/104/1
Scope and Contents Prime Minister's printed personal minutes, July 1943.Includes texts of minutes from WSC (annotated with additional printed information) to: General Sir Hastings Ismay [Chief of Staff to the Minister of Defence]; the Chiefs of Staff; senior civil servants, including Sir Edward Bridges [Secretary to the War Cabinet]; members of the Cabinet and other government ministers; "C" [Major General Sir Stewart Menzies, Head of Britain's Secret Intelligence Service].Subjects covered by the minutes...
Dates: 01 Jul 1943 - 31 Jul 1943
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 28 Mar 1943

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/108/121
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Telegram from WSC to General Sir Bernard Montgomery (General Officer Commanding the Eighth Army) congratulating him on his victory and informing him of the position of the other divisions [information learned from Enigma decrypts]. T391/3.

Dates: 28 Mar 1943
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 6 Apr 1943

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/109/89-92
Scope and Contents Telegram from [Richard Casey] Minister of State [Middle East] to WSC marked 'personal and most secret' on subjects including: the satisfactory maintenance position of the Eighth Army; the need for petrol drums for Husky [codename for the capture of Sicily]; progress planning armed assistance to Turkey; co-ordination of military and civil supplies to Turkey and the limits of the transport in Turkey; SOE (MO4) [Special Operations Executive] activities sabotaging chrome output in Greece and...
Dates: 6 Apr 1943
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 11 Apr 1943

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/109/114
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Telegram from WSC to General [Sir Harold] Alexander [later Lord Alexander of Tunis, Deputy Commander in Chief North African Theatre of Operations] marked 'most secret and personal' thanking him for his telegram, commenting that Alexander's combinations seem to be working well and that Boniface [Enigma decrypts] shows that the enemy is in a dire condition, especially in fuel. Typescript.

Dates: 11 Apr 1943
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), [Nov] [1939]

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 19/2A/101
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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

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

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

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

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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), 10 Sep 1941

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/22B/112-113
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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), 22 May 1941

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/27/2
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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

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/27/3
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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

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

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/31A/2
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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

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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

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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

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/31A/5
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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