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Polish Military Intelligence: 'Historique du Réseau F2' (Historical Record of Network...
Catalogue reference: HD 5
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This series consists of a history of Polish Military Intelligence network in France during the Second World War. The history outlines the establishment of the Polish Deuxième Bureau network in France in mid-1940; its development, activities,...
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HD 5
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- Polish Military Intelligence: 'Historique du Réseau F2' (Historical Record of Network F2)
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Date (When the record was created)
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1946
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series consists of a history of Polish Military Intelligence network in France during the Second World War. The history outlines the establishment of the Polish Deuxième Bureau network in France in mid-1940; its development, activities, successes and failures during the ensuing four years, and has graphs showing the extent of its operations throughout France and a nominal list of agents and their pseudonyms.The document is in French with no English translation.
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- The National Archives, Kew
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French
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- Polish Military Intelligence, Network F2, 1940-1946
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1 file(s)
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This History is all that remains of papers given to the Secret Intelligence Service, SIS (MI6), by Polish Military Intelligence (Oddzial II or Deuxième Bureau) during and immediately after the Second World War. Exhaustive enquiries have failed to locate other papers passed over at the time. They would appear to have been destroyed in the early post-war years as ephemeral once their original usefulness had lapsed.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C8668/
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