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Pearl Harbour - The Evidence for: The paper prepared for Winston Churchill's history...

Catalogue reference: HW 50/52

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This record is about the Pearl Harbour - The Evidence for: The paper prepared for Winston Churchill's history... dating from 1941 Feb 01 - 1941 Dec 07 in the series Government Code and Cypher School and Government Communications Headquarters: Records.... It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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HW 50/52
Date
1941 Feb 01 - 1941 Dec 07
Description

Pearl Harbour - The Evidence for: The paper prepared for Winston Churchill's history on information available to the British Cabinet before Pearl Harbour (the BJ [diplomatic] telegrams exchanged between America and the British giving warnings of impending Japanese attack). This study was carried out by Nigel de Grey and most of the papers are in his handwriting

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The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Access conditions
Retained Until 2004
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Subjects
Topics
Conflict
Intelligence
Americas
Communications
Operations, battles and campaigns
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C11205574/

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