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Turkey
19000 Representative handling 19-Land Denmark
21000 Representative handling 21-Land Finland
22000 Atlantic Islands (including the UK)
22116 Azores*
22500 Czechoslovakia
22600 Yugoslavia (old symbol as at late 1946)
22500 England/GB Counter-Intelligence
22850 MI6 Section IX Officer Harry Steptoe
23000 Representative handling 23-Land Spain [or Toulouse*]
23500 Madrid*
24000 Representative handling 24-Land Portugal
27000 Representative handling 27-Land France
29000 Representative handling 29-Land Czechoslovakia
31000 Latvia*
32000 Representative handling 32-Land Italy
32700/V Captain Dawson, Vatican
33000 Representative handling 33-Land Holland
35000 Representative handling 35-Land Jugoslavia/Yugoslavia
36000 Representative handling 36-Land Sweden
37000 Representative handling 37-Land Japan
38000 Representative handling 38-Land Poland
41000 Representative handling 41-Land Greece
42000 Representative handling 42-Land Switzerland
43000 Estonia
44000 Representative handling 44-Land Austria
45000 Representative handling 45-Land France
48000 Representative handling 48-Land USA
49000 Representative handling 49-Land Malta
51000 Representative handling 51-Land Morocco and Tangier
from Gibraltar
52000 North Africa
53000 Abyssinia
56000 Representative handling 56-Land North Africa/Tangier
57000 Lubigo (Angola)
58000 East Africa
58300 (PEA) [58-Land Portuguese East Africa/Kenya]
59000 West Africa
75000 Representative handling 75-Land South America
82000 Iraq
83000 Iran
86000 Middle East (HQ)
87000 Lebanon
88000 Representative handling 88-Land Palestine &
Transjordan
89000 Representative handling 89-Land League of Nations
subsequently ME/Middle East
89000 may also be Alexander [cryptonym] otherwise Lt Col
J P O Shelley SOE
89700 symbol for Lt Col Rodney O Dennys as at July 1945, based
Cairo, then Germany
92000 Italy (new symbol as at late 1946)
93000 Norway*
95000 Representative handling 95-Land Russia/USSR
99000 Wartime MI6 agents in Norway, Denmark, Holland,
Belgium, France, Spain and Portugal
34800 - shown as Allied Agent reports in summary listing of
CX/letter/letter bigram/digraph indicators used to identify
sigint product from GC & CS. Indicators originally
introduced to simulate SIS agent/source reporting and
disguise fact that source was cryptographic. The CX/MSS
classification on any series of reports denotes intelligence
derived from decrypts of German Army and Air Force
high-grade machine traffic (Enigma).)
* Indicates Station code numbers reported in an SIS Station Code Book reproduced in “The Secret Wireless War”, by Geoffrey Pidgeon, p 359, UPSO, 2003. The last entry was made in July 1940.
Most other entries in the above list come from the UK’s National Archives website http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ and is Crown copyright, reproduced in accordance with the Open Government Licence for Public Sector Information see http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/.
Specialist Terms, Codenames And Abbreviations
A Force. British military organization responsible for planning
and implementing deception in the Mediterranean theatre.
AAI. Allied Armies in Italy - The Allied army group in Italy from
March to December 1944.
Abt I/II/III Abteilung. Each a section of the Abwehr
responsible for espionage (I), sabotage (II), and counter-
espionage (III), respectively.
Abwehr. Amt Ausland/Abwehr im Oberkommando
der Wehrmacht - The espionage service of the Oberkommando
der Wehrmacht (OKW).
Abwehrleitstelle. Alst - Main branch office administering more
than one Ast.
Abwehrnebenstelle. NEST - Subsidiary branch of Abwehr.
Abwehrstelle. Ast - A main Abwehr station, in home or occupied
Territory, in Army Command area.
AFHQ. Allied Force Headquarters - Allied command covering the
central and western Mediterranean.
AK. Abwehrkommando - Mobile Abwehr field units attached to
army groups or armies. (See FAK)
Alst. See Abwehrleitstelle.
Amt VI. Foreign intelligence office of the RSHA.
AMZON. American zone of Germany.
ANCXF. Allied Naval Command, “X” Force - Intelligence/
deception body for Allied Naval Command.
Ast. See Abwehrstelle.
AZUSA. OSS/SSU designation of atomic energy information
(OSS also used codeword RAMONA).
B Branch/B Division. The counter-intelligence section of MI5.
B1a. Double agent section of MI5 B Division.
B1b. ISOS analysis section of MI5 B Division.
B Section. Counter-intelligence section of ISLD.
BCRA. Bureau Centrale de Renseignement et d’Action, French
Gaullist intelligence and operational services to 1944.
Bletchley Park. SIGINT organization (see GC&CS) controlled
by MI6.
BLUEJACKET.