Special Counter Intelligence in WW2 Europe. Keith Ellison
of General Headquarters. Middle East.
SIPO. German Security Police.
SM. Sécurité Militaire. Military Security, covering military
security and CE until the end of 1944.
SOE. Special Operations Executive. British organization
designed to engage in espionage and sabotage in
occupied Europe, and to aid resistance groups.
Special Agent. In the Thirty Committee system, the term
used for double agents used for deception operations.
Special Section. Double agent section of SIME.
SSM. Service de Sécurité Militaire, French Military Security
Service.
SR. Service de Renseignements, Foreign Intelligence
Service within the French 2nd Bureau.
ST. Surveillance du Territoire, French Intelligence agency.
Sussex Mission. Combined OSS-MI6-French Intelligence
operations in France.
T Force. Allied Intelligence Target Force developed for the
coordinated exploitation of enemy material and documents.
Thirty Committees. Joint committees responsible for
managing double agents in a specified geographical area
of the Mediterranean theatre. Each committee was given
a number, and they were drawn from the range between
30 and 60.
TR. Traveaux Ruraux (Rural Works), cover name for French
covert CE, 1940-1944.
TR119. TR Algiers, commanded by Capt Doudot.
TR120. TR Rabat, commanded by Breteil.
TR121. TR Tunis, commanded by Fontès.
TRIFLE. Possible early codename for Capt Malcolm Smith.
TRUSTY. Captain Malcolm Smith OC № 2SI(b)/ 3 SCI Unit,
Italy.
TRUSTY B. John George Fairweather, 143453 London Irish
Rifles; No.2 SI(b)/3 SCI Unit.
Twenty (XX) Committee. A joint committee responsible for
clearing information and managing the operations of the
double agents based in Britain.
ULTRA. Codename for the intelligence product derived from
breaking German machine ciphers.
UNRRA. United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Agency.
USFETO. United States Forces European Theater of Operations.
W. French CE penetration agent.
W2. Enemy penetration agent known to French CE.
Werewolves. Nazi organization trained to wage guerilla warfare
after the defeat of German military forces.
X-2. Counter-Espionage Branch of the OSS and later the SSU.
XB. Name used in cable traffic for MI6(V).
Codenames of Military Operations and Deception Plans
ANVIL. Planned operation for an Allied invasion of the
south coast of France. Name changed to DRAGOON
before the assault.
AVALANCHE. 9 September 1943 invasion of Italy at Salerno.
BARCLAY. 1943 Mediterranean strategic deception covering
the invasion of Sicily, to induce the Axis to give priority to
maintaining and reinforcing its forces in southern France
and the Balkans.
BOARDMAN. Late summer 1943 deception plan covering the
Allied invasion of mainland Italy.
BODYGUARD. Codename for the overall. European-wide
deception plan for the Normandy landings in June 1944.
CASCADE. The overall order of battle deception plan for the
Mediterranean theatre. Initiated in March 1942 and
expanded in March 1943. Replaced by plan WANTAGE
in February 1944.
COLLECT. Deception plan in support of the November
1941 Crusader offensive in the Western Desert.
COMPASS. December 1940 British offensive against Italian
forces in the Western Desert.
CRUSADER. November 1941 British offensive against Axis
forces in the Western Desert.
DIADEM. May 1944 Allied offensive against German positions
south of Rome.
DIME. World War II code name for the beaches at Gela, Sicily
DRAGOON. August 1944 Allied invasion of southern France
(see ANVIL).
FOYNES. Late 1943 deception plan designed to mask the
number of troops and landing craft returning to Britain
from the Mediterranean.
GYMNAST. 1941 plan for the Allied invasion of French
northwest Africa (also SUPER-GYMNAST).
HUSKY. The invasion of Sicily in July 1943.
JOSS. Code name for the beaches in the Licata area.
MANNA. British occupation of southern Greece.
MINCEMEAT. April 1943 operation, in support of BARCLAY,
that planted fake documents on the Germans, via a
corpse floated off the coast of Spain, planned to divert
attention from Operation HUSKY, to induce the Axis to
believe that Allied objectives were Sardinia and the
Peloponnesus instead of Sicily.
OLIVE. August 1944 Allied offensive in Italy, designed to
breakthrough the Gothic Line.
OVERLORD. Anglo-American-Canadian invasion of
Normandy in June 1944.
TORCH. Anglo-American landings in French North Africa
in November 1942.
WANTAGE. Mediterranean order of battle deception plan.
Begun in February 1944 as a replacement