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Agency Africa

Agency Africa  

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Franco-Polish intelligence network which was also known as Agency Rygor after its leader, Major (later Maj-General) Rygor Slowikowski, who escaped to France after the end of the Polish campaign in ...
Bureau Central de Rensignements et d'Action

Bureau Central de Rensignements et d'Action  

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(BCRA)(Central Bureau of Information and Action) was the intelligence service of de Gaulle and the Free French, formed in January 1942 and headed by André Dewavrin alias Colonel Passy. ...
carrier pigeons

carrier pigeons  

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Like other animals, were employed—by both sides—more frequently than might be supposed. British birds were conscripted into the National Pigeon Service and were used most often by the RAF whose ...
deception

deception  

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N.those measures designed to mislead the enemy by manipulation, distortion, or falsification of evidence.
diplomacy

diplomacy  

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N.the profession, activity, or skill of managing international relations, typically by a country's representatives abroad: an extensive round of diplomacy in the Middle East.
double agent

double agent  

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Agent in contact with two opposing intelligence services, only one of which is aware of the double contact or quasi-intelligence services.
Eire

Eire  

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The Gaelic name for Ireland, the official name of the Republic of Ireland from 1937 to 1949.
Elyeza Bazna

Elyeza Bazna  

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(1905–71),agent of the Nazi security service, the Sicherheitsdienst or SD (see RSHA), which gave him the codename CICERO. In July 1943 he was employed as the manservant of the ...
espionage

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The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military

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n.the act of obtaining, delivering, transmitting, communicating, or receiving information about the national defense with an intent, or reason to believe, that the information may be used ... More
fifth column

fifth column  

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A group within a country at war who are sympathetic to or working for its enemies.fifth columnist.the term dates from the Spanish Civil War, when Gen. Mola, leading ...
Kondor mission

Kondor mission  

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German Abwehr espionage operation in Egypt undertaken in May 1942 by two German nationals, Johannes Eppler and his wireless operator Hans Gerd Sandstetter. In an operation codenamed SALAAM the ...
Long Range Desert Group

Long Range Desert Group  

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(LRDG),British unit formed at the start of the Western Desert campaigns in June 1940 by Captain Ralph Bagnold who commanded it until August 1941. Equipped with specially adapted trucks ...
LUCY Ring

LUCY Ring  

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The name given by the head of the Rote Drei, a GRU (Soviet Military Intelligence) espionage network, to the espionage network run by a German communist, Rudolf Rössler, from Switzerland.[...]
MAGIC

MAGIC  

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Was the code name for intelligence intercepts of American origin based on the reading of enemy codes and ciphers. The term came from references to the code-breakers in the American ...
Max organization

Max organization  

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Putative German Abwehr espionage network based in Sofia, Bulgaria, and then Budapest. Its leader was a German Jew, Richard Kauder (KLATT), who worked with two White Russian émigrés, Anton Turkul ...
MI5

MI5  

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British security service which in the Second World War, as in the First, shared with MI6 and the Special Branch of the Metropolitan Police the responsibility of evaluating, and advising ...
MI6

MI6  

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(in the UK) the governmental agency responsible for dealing with matters of internal security and counter-intelligence overseas. Formed in 1912, the agency was officially named the Secret ...
Naval Intelligence Division

Naval Intelligence Division  

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(NID),the senior naval staff division of the British Admiralty which, unlike its army and air force counterparts, was an operational as well as an administrative centre. The NID had ...
Paul Thümmel

Paul Thümmel  

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(?–1945),High ranking member of the Abwehr who, from March 1937, supplied Czechoslovakia with reliable information about Germany's intentions and order of battle. He continued to do so—after moving ...
Pearl Harbor

Pearl Harbor  

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A harbour on the Pacific island of Oahu, in Hawaii, the site of a major US naval base, where a surprise attack on 7 December 1941 by Japanese carrier-borne aircraft, inflicted heavy damage and ...

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