The Secret Wireless War
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Possibly the most important UK wireless traffic in World War II was handled by a unit formed in 1938 by Brigadier Richard Gambier-Parry head of MI6 Section VIII - the communications division of SIS. This book tells of its formation and includes diary entries by one of the "founding fathers" recording the secret meetings that took place, and the assembly of its talented staff. It reports the earlier days of the original SIS wireless "Station X" based in Barnes in south west London, and the building of its second station in a bungalow in Surrey with the strange name of "Funny Neuk" - which turned out to be owned by Admiral Sir Hugh Sinclair - "C" - Chief of Secret Intelligence Services. The units wireless station at Bletchley Park is described and its replacement by the stations at nearby Whaddon Hall which then became the wartime headquarters of Section VIII. It documents the work of our agents in embassies abroad, and of those in German occupied territories; the story of Churchill"s...