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Decrypts of intercepted diplomatic communications. Afghanistan: 23032-23034, 23059,...

Catalogue reference: HW 12/83

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This record is about the Decrypts of intercepted diplomatic communications. Afghanistan: 23032-23034, 23059,... dating from 1926 June in the series Government Code and Cypher School: Diplomatic Section and predecessors: Decrypts.... It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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HW 12/83
Date
1926 June
Description

Decrypts of intercepted diplomatic communications.

  • Afghanistan: 23032-23034, 23059, 23077, 23082, 23107, 23111, 23130.
  • Egypt: 23023-23024, 23029, 23038-23039, 23068, 23094, 23104, 23185.
  • France: 23015-23017, 23021-23022, 23028, 23035-23037, 23045, 23048, 23052, 23060-23063, 23071, 23080-23081, 23083, 23091, 23093, 23112, 23137, 23153, 23158, 23165, 23168, 23171, 23173, 23193.
  • Greece: 23067, 23122-23123, 23141-23143, 23157, 23170.
  • Italy: 23019, 23027, 23041-23043, 23055-23057, 23065-23066, 23074-23075, 23078, 23084, 23088, 23096, 23118-23121, 23133, 23139, 23154, 23155, 23166, 23186.
  • Japan: 23025, 23053, 23069, 23079, 23087, 23092, 23127, 23174, 23175.
  • Persia: 23047, 23051, 23070, 23090, 23097, 23167, 23194.
  • Poland: 23031, 23085.
  • Soviet Union: 23109, 23110, 23113, 23115, 23128, 23136, 23138, 23189, 23190, 23191, 23192.
  • Spain: 23076.
  • Switzerland: 23049.
  • Turkey (Angora): 23020, 23044, 23058, 23086, 23089, 23129, 23140.
  • United States: 23018, 23026, 23030, 23040, 23046, 23050, 23054, 23064, 23072-23073, 23095, 23105, 23108, 23114, 23117, 23131, 23132, 23156, 23159, 23172.
  • Yugoslavia: 23169.
  • Missing at transfer: 23098-23103, 23106, 23116, 23124-23126, 23134-23135, 23144-23152, 23160-23164, 23176-23184, 23187-23188. [It may be relevant that this was a period of industrial unrest: the General Strike in support of a coal-miners' strike taking place May 3-12 with financial assistance from Soviet trade unions (see HW 12/83, 23109 and HW 12/86, 23736-23749). The periodic lists of report serial numbers and titles were discontinued and not re-instituted until August 1926.]

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Labour
Asia
Europe and Russia
Coal
Intelligence
Americas
Middle East
Record URL
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