Special Counter Intelligence in WW2 Europe. Keith Ellison
A CEA used either for tactical or strategic
deception.
BMA. Bureau des Menées Anti-Nationales, Vichy Military CI.
BRASS. 2nd British Army.
Broadway. British Intelligence (MI6 Headquarters).
BRONZE. 102 SCIU with 1st Canadian Army.
BSM. Bureau de Sécurité Militaire, French Military Security.
BULLION. 21 AG in Belgium.
C. The head of MI6, also CSS.
CEA. Controlled Enemy Agent.
Centrale. Enemy radio base station which corresponds with
a CEA.
Chicken Feed. True information passed to the enemy in an
effort to build up the credibility of a double agent.
CIB. SHAEF Counter-Intelligence Branch, part of G-2.
CIC. Counter Intelligence Corps (US) .
CICI. Combined Intelligence Centre Iraq.
Cinquième Bureau. 5th Bureau, created in wartime, combined
all French military intelligence agencies.
CRUSADE. Codename for MI6(V) at Ryder St, London.
CSDIC. Combined Services Detailed Interrogation Centre.
D Measure. Order to execute someone immediately
(French usage).
DESPOT. The term for a CEA used for penetration but not
for tactical or strategic deception. An earlier definition was “Any
agent controlled by [ the Allies] whose function is to deceive
the enemy. This will cover agents planted by [the Allies] on
the enemy as well as enemy agents [they] turn around, and
will be used irrespective of the means employed (e.g. W/T
or direct contacts)”.
Deuxième Bureau. 2nd Bureau, Overall French Military
Intelligence Directorate, G-2 equivalent.
D/F’ing. Radio Direction Finding (used to track illicit
transmitters).
DGER. Direction Générale des Études et Recherches, French
Intelligence Directorate.
DGSS. Direction Générale des Services Spéciaux, 1944 merged
BCRA and French traditional service.
DIVER. Codename for a DA, an Allied agent who penetrated
enemy Intelligence Services by physical contact.
DMI. Director of Military Intelligence.
DMO. Director of Military Operations.
DSM. Direction de Sécurité Militaire, French Military Security
Directorate formed 1943 by Gen Giraud in North Africa.
DSO. Defence Security Office / Officer, representatives of
MI5 in British overseas possessions, and some neutral
states.
DST. Direction de la Surveillance du Territoire, replaced
French ST in 1944.
ETO. European Theater of Operations.
ETOUSA. European Theater of Operations US Army.
FAK. Frontaufklärungskommando. Mobile Abwehr field units
attached to army groups or armies. (See AK)
FAT. Frontaufklärungstrupp. Mobile Abwehr field units which
are subordinate to a FAK. Formerly Abwehrtruppen.
FFI. Forces Franҫaises de l'Intérieur (Free French Military
Resistance).
FHO. Fremde Heere Ost (Foreign Armies East). Intelligence
analysis section of the General Staff of the German Army, with
responsibility for the Eastern Front.
FHW. Fremde Heere West (Foreign Armies West). Intelligence
analysis section of the General Staff of the German Army, with
responsibility for all European fronts other than the Eastern
Front.
Foodstuff. See Chicken Feed.
Forty Committees. See Thirty Committees.
FSP/FSS. Field Security Police/Section, Counter-Intelligence
and security force of Intelligence Corps personnel; CIC
equivalent in British Army.
FUSAG. First US Army Group, later known as 12 AG.
G-2/GSO(I). Military Intelligence staff (US/British).
G-5. Civil Affairs, U.S. Army
GALVESTON. Codename for Dudley Clarke, head of ‘A' Force;
sometimes used to denote the organization as a whole.
GC&CS. Government Code and Cypher School, aka Bletchley
Park.
GHQ. General Headquarters. Middle East. Based in Cairo.
GIS. German Intelligence Service.
I(b). British Military Staff for CI matters.
Ic. German staff officer responsible for operational intelligence.
I/H – I/L – I/M. Sections of Abwehr Abteilung I responsible for
army (I/H), Air force (I/L), and naval intelligence (I/M),
respectively.
ISBA. “Intelligence Service, British Agents”; name for sub-series
of ISOS whose distribution was restricted by Lt Col Cowgill,
MI6(V).
ISLD. Inter-Services Liaison Department. The local guise of MI6
in the Mediterranean and Middle East.
ISSB. Inter-Services Security Board.
ISK. Intelligence Service Knox. Named after Dillwyn Knox, the
intelligence product from breaking Abwehr machine ciphers.
ISOS. Intelligence Service Oliver Strachey. Intelligence product
derived from breaking Abwehr hand ciphers.
JE-Land. X-2 codename for USSR.
JIC. Joint Intelligence Committee. British cabinet sub-
committee.
JPS. Joint Planning Staff.
KdM.