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Room 40 decrypts: telegrams from Berlin via radio transmitter at Nauen to German...
Catalogue reference: HW 7/34
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HW 7/34
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Date (When the record was created)
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1916
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Description (What the record is about)
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Room 40 decrypts: telegrams from Berlin via radio transmitter at Nauen to German embassies in South America and East Africa, May - June
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Public Record(s)
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Open Document, Open Description
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3159572/
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HW 7
Room 40 and successors: World War I Official Histories
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Room 40 and successors: World War I Official Histories
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