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Germany under Pressure 1943 Part II

Germany Intell Operations Soviet 25 Min Read

Hitler had already summoned the leaders of Hungary, Romania and Slovakia to meetings to pull them into line, and Bluecher demanded that President Ryti, re-elected on 15 February 1943, make the same journey, but Ryti refused. Germany showed its displeasure by temporarily recalling Bluecher, then, from the beginning of June, stopping all deliveries of food to Finland and halving deliveries…

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Germany Intell 36 Min Read

Hauptverwaltung Aufklärung [HVA] Defection

Werner Stiller On 16 August 1951 HVA was given the cover name Institut für wirtschaftliche Forschung (IWF), meaning Institute for Scientific Research. The first head of this new enterprise was Anton Ackermann, another of the returnees who had spent the war in Moscow and returned early to have a career…

Biography Intell Prussia 20 Min Read

Wilhelm Stieber I

Having provided us with Clausewitz, Germany supplied an antidote in the guise of Wilhelm Stieber (1818–92). Not from Prussia himself, Stieber was born in Merseburg, Saxony, and had an English mother named Daisy who claimed descent from Oliver Cromwell. In 1820 the family moved to Berlin where his father held…

Biography Intell Prussia 31 Min Read

Wilhelm Stieber II

With war looming, Bismarck ordered Stieber to shut down his intelligence service in Austria so that there would be no clues that Prussia had spied on Austria in peacetime.5 Stieber’s concluding report to Bismarck included the allegation that Austrian emperor Franz Joseph had begun using a double on public occasions…

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COMPUTERS – A LEGACY OF WAR

The Science Museum’s Difference Engine No. 2, built from Babbage’s design The first design for a computer was, of course, a mechanical device with gears and levers designed by the British mathematician Charles Babbage. He first wrote down the idea in a letter to Sir Humphrey Davy in 1822. His…

British Intell 28 Min Read

SPY, BRITANNIA I

‘I pray you, though, tell your folk and home, lest hence ye fare suspect to wander your way as spies in Danish land. Now, dwellers afar, ocean-travellers, take from me simple advice: the sooner the better I hear of the country whence ye came.’ Passage from the oldest English epic,…

British Intell 29 Min Read

SPY, BRITANNIA II

Niccolò Machiavelli Machiavellian is a word often used in context with Walsingham and it is believed he came into contact with the Italian’s writings while in Italy. The Florentine Niccolò Machiavelli was responsible for a number of important works, including the notorious Il Principe (The Prince), which was partly based…

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Military Communication, the Korean and Vietnam Wars (1945-1975)

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The 46th and 72nd Reconnaissance Squadrons’ operations in the Arctic: 1946

The winters at Ladd Field were always severe, and sometimes exceptionally so. Every month of…