NASIG v2 Final

Secret Files from World Wars to Cold War

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SECRET FILES

FROM WORLD WARS TO COLD WAR

Intelligence, Strategy & Diplomacy

Source: The National Archives UK

KEY FACTS

•Materials date from 1873 to 1953

•Key subjects • Intelligence• Foreign Policy•Military History• International Relations

•The numbers• Files 4,504 • Documents 12,208 • Pages 147,600

Rudolph Hess

SECRETS contains: 21 files of conversations between Hess and officials along with news clippings, handwritten notes,

official docs, personal letters, medical reports

• May 10th, 1941 Hess flies to Scotland to try to negotiate peace with the UK• May 1st- June 30th, 1941, Hess and authorities hold series of conversations

America Declares War

SECRETS includes Japanese communique intercepted by MI6, from Japanese ambassador in Berlin to Foreign Minister in Tokyo. This

details a conversation with Ribbentrop who says ‘…the immediate participation in the war by Germany…was a matter of course’.

• Dec 7th, 1941 Japanese pilots bomb US naval base in Pearl Harbor• Dec 8th, 1941 America declares war

Operation Overlord

• June 3rd, 1944 – 3 days before Operation Overlord (Battle of Normandy)• June 6th, 1944 Operation Overlord begins

SECRETS contains CAB files, first inter-service committee in the UKFiles indicate that there has been ‘no intelligence to suggest the

enemy has accurately assessed our area of assault’ and ‘no special u-Boat patrols detected’

Dudley Clarke: Pioneer of Military Deception

SECRETS includes 12 documents about the case including the photos, telegrams and how the issue continued into 1942 when

a letter threatening to publish these appeared in a Berlin newspaper!

• October 17th, 1941 ‘Times’ war correspondent arrested in Madrid• October 21st, 1941 British Embassy sends these photographs taken by

Spanish police to London

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