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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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Transcript of interview: Sir Francis Richards, 2016

Reference Code: GBR/0014/DOHP 149
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

The programme comprises transcripts of interviews with senior diplomats.

Dates: 2016
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. Material in this collection is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue.
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Transcript of interview: Sir Nicholas Bayne, 2016

Reference Code: GBR/0014/DOHP 150
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

The programme comprises transcripts of interviews with senior diplomats.

Dates: 2016
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. Material in this collection is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue.
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Transcript of interview: Sir Paul Lever, 2011

Reference Code: GBR/0014/DOHP 135
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

The programme comprises transcripts of interviews with senior diplomats.

Dates: 2011
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. Material in this collection is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue.
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Transcript of interview: Tim Dowse, 2020

Reference Code: GBR/0014/DOHP 196
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

The programme comprises transcripts of interviews with senior diplomats.

Dates: 2020
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. Material in this collection is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue.
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Transcript of JEP's War Recollections, North Africa 1939-1945, as given to the Imperial War Museum, December 1987, 1987-12

Reference Code: GBR/0014/POLL 1/6/26
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Mainly JEP's classical notes and papers from his time as a student and fellow of Trinity College, University of Cambridge, and as Professor of Greek at the University of Sydney [Australia]. Included among these are other personal papers, including correspondence with family, friends and colleagues, JEP's poetry and papers from his service during the war.

Dates: 1987-12
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The majority of the collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. Please see individual files for details.
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(Untitled), 03 Sep 1931

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 1/397B/143
Scope and Contents

Letter from WSC to Sir Ernley Blackwell, [Legal Assistant Under-Secretary of State, Home Office], on the cancellation of his United States lecture tour, because of the possibility of a General Election, [and the death threat from the Ghadr Indian Revolutionary Party], suggesting that the Home Office keep a close watch on the young Indians in London, as they would certainly be in a bad mood when the Round Table Conference reached its inevitable breakdown. [Carbon].

Dates: 03 Sep 1931
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 27 Aug 1931

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 1/397B/145
Scope and Contents

Letter from Sir Ernley Blackwell [Legal Assistant Under- Secretary of State], Home Office, to WSC, with notification that the "Ghada" [Ghadr] Indian Revolutionary Party were making plans for an attempt on WSC's life during his autumn tour of the United States, and asking for details of his movements.

Dates: 27 Aug 1931
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 22 Nov 1931

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 1/399A/50-54
Scope and Contents

Memorandum by the [? Indian Police] sent to Deputy Assistant Commissioner, Special Branch, Metropolitan Police, on the Ghadr Indian revolutionary party, active in California, which had threatened to kill WSC during his lecture tour of the United States. [Typescript].

Dates: 22 Nov 1931
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 01 Dec 1914

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/42/3
Scope and Contents

Telegram from the Commander-in-Chief, Home Fleet [Admiral Sir John Jellicoe] to Admiralty, on banning British and neutral trawlers from fishing in the North Sea. [Carbon].

Dates: 01 Dec 1914
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 03 Nov 1914

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/42/16
Scope and Contents

Telegram from Admiralty to the Commander-in-Chief, Home Fleet [Admiral Sir John Jellicoe], passing on a report from the Intelligence Officer at St John's, Newfoundland [Canada], that the British Consul-General in New York [United States] had been informed confidentially by Herman Rusder, that a German Cruiser Squadron intended to strike somewhere in the North Atlantic within a few days. Initialled by Vice-Admiral Sir [Frederick] Doveton Sturdee [Chief of Staff]. [Carbon].

Dates: 03 Nov 1914
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 15 Nov 1914

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/42/102
Scope and Contents

Telegram from Admiralty to the Commander-in-Chief, Home Fleet [Admiral Sir John Jellicoe], reporting intelligence from a very trustworthy source in Denmark, on indications of a sortie by the German Fleet, or a part of it, with the object of enabling a fleet of fast cruisers to get into the Atlantic. Initialled by Vice-Admiral Henry Oliver [Chief of Staff]. [Carbon].

Dates: 15 Nov 1914
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 22 Nov 1914

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/42/141
Scope and Contents

Telegram from Admiralty to the Commander-in-Chief, Home Fleet [Admiral Sir John Jellicoe], on the internment of the German minelayer Berlin in Norway, and the possibility that the British fleet was to have been decoyed into a minefield laid by the Berlin. Initialled by WSC and Vice-Admiral Henry Oliver [Chief of Staff]. [Carbon].

Dates: 22 Nov 1914
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 26 Nov 1914

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/42/160
Scope and Contents

Telegram from the French Ministry of Marine to the French Naval Attache, (London), reporting that they had sent agents to Spain, to obtain information about possible operations of minelayers and trawlers. [Carbon].

Dates: 26 Nov 1914
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 26 Nov 1914

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/42/162
Scope and Contents

Telegram from the French Naval Attache, (London) to the French Ministry of Marine, on reports that the Germans intended to make use of the Spanish coasts for sowing mines in the Strait of Gibraltar and along the south coast of Spain; the Attache suggests that a French ship should visit the Spanish ports to help Spanish destroyers keep a lookout. [Carbon].

Dates: 26 Nov 1914
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 27 Nov 1914

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/42/163
Scope and Contents

Telegram from Admiralty to the Commander-in-Chief, Home Fleet [Admiral Sir John Jellicoe], on the desirability of using Kirkwall [Orkney Islands, Scotland] rather than Lerwick [Shetland Islands] for the examination of neutral ships, as it facilitated negotiations with neutral powers. The telegram also details precautions for preventing neutral ships at Kirkwall from acquiring information. Initialled by Vice-Admiral Henry Oliver [Chief of Staff]. [Carbon].

Dates: 27 Nov 1914
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 27 Nov 1914

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/42/165
Scope and Contents

Telegram from the Commander-in-Chief, Home Fleet [Admiral Sir John Jellicoe] to Admiralty, suggesting that if any of the three battle cruisers [? in the South Atlantic] took part in an action, their name and class should be suppressed, so that the enemy would not be aware of the depletion of the Battle Cruiser Squadron in the North Sea. [Carbon].

Dates: 27 Nov 1914
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 29 Aug 1914 - 01 Nov 1914

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/43/145-148
Scope and Contents

Letter from Admiral Lord Charles Beresford (Great Cumberland Place, London) to WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] on rumours that the Germans had taken a monastery close to Point de Galle in Ceylon [later Sri Lanka], disguising themselves as Buddhist priests. Includes covering note from Edward Heaton-Ellis [Assistant Director of Intelligence Division, Admiralty War Staff] stating that action had been taken.

Dates: 29 Aug 1914 - 01 Nov 1914
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 16 Aug 1914

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/44/2
Scope and Contents

Letter from Friedrich von Bulow, representative of the Krupp Works, to WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty], on his arrest on a charge of espionage, asking to be released from his parole, and to be allowed to return to Germany.

Dates: 16 Aug 1914
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 18 Aug 1914

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/44/56-57
Scope and Contents Minute from Rear-Admiral Henry Oliver, Director of the Intelligence Division, Admiralty, to WSC, First Lord of the Admiralty, on the case of Friedrich von Bulow, representative of the Krupp Works in Britain, who had been arrested on a charge of espionage and had appealed to WSC to be allowed to return to Germany [see CHAR 13/44/2]. Oliver states that Krupps maintained a system of espionage and that von Bulow was implicated in it, or knew about it; also that he had consulted Major Vernon Kell...
Dates: 18 Aug 1914
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 16 Oct 1914

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/39/2
Scope and Contents

Telegram from Admiralty to Various Intelligence Officers, reporting that experience of the first two months of war showed that no increase in loss of merchant shipping was incurred by keeping trade routes open, and stressing the importance of keeping trade going. Initialled by Edward Heaton-Ellis [Assistant Director of Intelligence Division], Richard Webb [Director of Trade Division] and Vice- Admiral Sir [Frederick] Doveton Sturdee [Chief of Staff]. [Carbon].

Dates: 16 Oct 1914
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 13 Nov 1914 - 18 Nov 1914

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/39/65
Scope and Contents Telegram from the Intelligence Department, Cairo War Office [Egypt], to Admiralty, reporting an interview with a Greek doctor, who had served as a Turkish officer in the Mosul Army Corps, giving the views of German officers as imparted to Turkish officers, on the British bombardment of the Dardanelles, a possible Turkish attack on Egypt, and fears of a British attack at Alexandretta [Iraq]. Includes telegrams between Admiral Sir Henry Jackson, Vice-Admiral Henry Oliver, Chief of Staff, and...
Dates: 13 Nov 1914 - 18 Nov 1914
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 14 Oct 1914

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/40/26
Scope and Contents

Telegram from Admiralty to the Commander-in-Chief, Home Fleet [Admiral Sir John Jellicoe], on a report from [Sir Henry Lowther], British Minister at Copenhagen [Denmark], on enemy ships and news that the Germans intended to conduct a long and strenuous submarine campaign in the North Sea.

Dates: 14 Oct 1914
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 19 Oct 1914

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/40/45
Scope and Contents

Telegram from the Commander-in-Chief, Home Fleet [Admiral Sir John Jellicoe] to Admiralty, stating that the Grand Fleet may use an anchorage in the Hebrides [Scotland], giving "grave suspicions" of a German base in Hebrides or Skye, requesting a thorough search, and the establishment of censorship of telegrams and letters. [Carbon].

Dates: 19 Oct 1914
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 22 Oct 1914

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/40/51
Scope and Contents

Telegram from the Commander-in-Chief, Home Fleet [Admiral Sir John Jellicoe], to Admiralty, reporting that the presence of the Dutch fishing fleet on the Dogger Bank could be used by the Germans. He suggests that the Dutch Government be asked to prevent wireless being carried, and to send patrol vessels to enforce this. [Carbon].

Dates: 22 Oct 1914
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 22 Oct 1914

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/40/55
Scope and Contents

Telegram from the Commander-in-Chief, Home Fleet [Admiral Sir John Jellicoe], to Admiralty, regretting that he could not spare ships for a patrol north of the Faroe Islands, and asking for one or two additional armed liners. Includes note that this was in reply to an Admiralty telegram stating that an attempt might be made to bring military supplies to Germany via Scandinavia and the Faroes. [Carbon].

Dates: 22 Oct 1914
Conditions Governing Access: Open