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Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus

Found in 343 Collections and/or Records:

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(Untitled), 10 Oct 1942

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/81/36
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Telegram from WSC to General Harold Alexander [later Lord Alexander of Tunis, Commander in Chief Middle East] marked "private" thanking him for his recent communication, commenting on the raid of the Sussex, referring to recent "M.K." [Enigma decrypts] about enemy shortages and sickness, and expressing hope that Alexander will see something of Duncan Sandys [later Lord Duncan-Sandys, Financial Secretary to the War Office].

Dates: 10 Oct 1942
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers. This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
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(Untitled), 12 Oct 1942

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/81/45
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Telegram from WSC to General Harold Alexander [later Lord Alexander of Tunis, Commander in Chief Middle East] marked "most secret and private" informing Alexander that he is arranging for more exactly textual M.K.'s [Enigma decrypts] to be sent from now on.Annotated by Desmond Morton [Prime Minister's Personal Assistant]: "Defence Registry. This telegram is not to be distributed. Will you please return this copy to me.".

Dates: 12 Oct 1942
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers. This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
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(Untitled), 16 Oct 1943

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/94B/200
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Letter from WSC to Sir Wyndham Portal [1st Commissioner of Works and Public Buildings] marked "Personal and Confidential" informing him of his appreciation for the speed in which his department carried out some construction work at Bletchley Park [Buckinghamshire] Signed.

Dates: 16 Oct 1943
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open.
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(Untitled), 16 Oct 1943

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/94B/201
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Letter from WSC to Harry Crookshank [Postmaster General] "Personal and Confidential" informing of his appreciation for the assistance of his department in supplying the communication needs of the establishment at Bletchley Park [Buckinghamshire] Initialled.

Dates: 16 Oct 1943
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: 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), 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), 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), 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), 08 Nov 1943

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/95A/79
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Minute from Desmond Morton [Prime Minister's Personal Assistant] to WSC reporting on a meeting with Colonel [Jacques] Balsan and informing him that Balsan is undertaking the co-ordination of secret resistance work in France and planning the post-liberation feeding of children in France. Typescript signed with initials.

Dates: 08 Nov 1943
Conditions Governing Access: 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), 15 Jun 1941

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/39/127
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Telegram from WSC to President Roosevelt: hopes for publicity for United States marines "taking over that cold place" [?Iceland]; refers to Vichy resistance in Syria; comments on effect of operations "Tiger" and "Jaguar" [codenames for operations to supply reinforcements to Middle East]; comments on imminent German onslaught on Soviet Union [information learned from Enigma decrypts].

Dates: 15 Jun 1941
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers. This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
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(Untitled), 18 Jun 1941

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/40/2-3
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Telegram from WSC to General Jan Smuts [Prime Minister of South Africa]: comments on how defeat at Agedabia almost destroyed General Sir Archibald Wavell's [Commander-in-Chief, Middle East] tank force, and details measures that were taken to reinforce Wavell; comments on battle in desert; refers to intelligence regarding the German advance on the Soviet Union.

Dates: 18 Jun 1941
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers. This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
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(Untitled), 23 Oct 1940

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/8/67
Scope and Contents Letter from "Van" [Sir Robert Vansittart, Chief Diplomatic Adviser to Foreign Secretary] (Foreign Office [London]) to Brendan Bracken [Parliamentary Private Secretary to WSC] marked "private and confidential" concerning access to WSC by Freeman and Fockeu. He asks Bracken to "head off" any future contact with WSC as the 2 individuals are associated with "certain necessary but not to be mentioned organisations" which must not have any traceable connection with the Prime Minister. Signed...
Dates: 23 Oct 1940
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), [May 1941]

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/39/6
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Text of most secret cipher telegram from unidentified sender to unidentified recipient advising the latter that arrangements will be made to meet any wish he may express to be relieved of his command if he finds himself "unwilling to give effect to it". The distribution list indicates that copies were restricted to WSC and the Chief of the Imperial General Staff [General Sir Alan Brooke].

Dates: [May 1941]
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers. This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
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(Untitled), 17 Sep 1941

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/42B/156
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Telegram from WSC to Prime Minister of Canada [Mackenzie King] on German attacks on Atlantic convoys and security measures to prevent sabotage and protect crew. [1st page only].

Dates: 17 Sep 1941
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 25 Sep 1941

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/43/19
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Telegram from WSC to 1st Lord Beaverbrook [Minister of Supply, British Supply Mission to the Soviet Union, earlier Max Aitken] on secrecy: "I am sure you realise that no-one in Russia ... must know about our special sources of information".

Dates: 25 Sep 1941
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 29 Sep 1941

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/43/30
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Telegram from 1st Lord Beaverbrook [Minister of Supply, British Supply Mission to the Soviet Union, earlier Max Aitken] to WSC promising not to reveal secrets; hopeful of reaching agreement; sailing under two flags "a vast success".

Dates: 29 Sep 1941
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 01 Apr 1942 - 30 Apr 1942

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/67/3
Scope and Contents Prime Minister's printed personal minutes, April 1942.Includes texts of minutes from WSC (annotated with additional printed information) to: General Sir Hastings Ismay [Chief of Staff to the Minister of Defence]; members of the Cabinet and other government ministers; the Chiefs of Staff.Subjects covered by the minutes include: the Japanese threat to the Falkland Islands; discussion of operation "Ironclad" [code name for British occupation of Diego Suarez, Madagascar]; the British naval...
Dates: 01 Apr 1942 - 30 Apr 1942
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 26 Apr 1942

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/74/36
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Telegram from WSC to General Sir Claude Auchinleck, Commander-in-Chief, Middle East, asking for his comments on the discrepancy between his estimate of German tank numbers in Eastern Cyrenaica [Libya] and the number identified by special information [? Enigma].

Dates: 26 Apr 1942
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 27 Apr 1942

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/74/50a-b
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Telegram from General Sir Claude Auchinleck [Commander-in-Chief, Middle East] to WSC explaining his reasons for asking the War Office to clarify "special information" [? Enigma] regarding the number of Axis tanks serviceable on 21 April.

Dates: 27 Apr 1942
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 30 Apr 1942

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/74/75
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Telegram from WSC to General Sir Claude Auchinleck [Commander-in-Chief, Middle East] regarding the figures for strength of the German Afrika Army contained in the latest most secret information.

Dates: 30 Apr 1942
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