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Abwehr |
German secret service, meaning ‘defence’ in German. |
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AO |
Abwehr officer. |
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Bupo |
Bundespolizei, the Swiss secret police. |
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‘C’ |
Head of British Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) MI6. |
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Camp 020 |
British interrogation centre in Richmond, Surrey. |
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CIA |
Central Intelligence Agency, replaced OSS, USA. |
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CID |
Committee of Imperial Defence, British. |
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cobbler |
Abwehr slang for a forger. |
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DCI |
Director of Central Intelligence, USA. |
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Emniyet |
Turkish secret service. |
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Enigma |
German code machine system. |
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FBI |
Federal Bureau of Investigation, USA. |
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FHW |
Fremde Heere West, intelligence branch German High Command. |
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FO |
Foreign Office, British. |
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Funkabwehr |
German radio security service. |
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GC & CS |
Government Code and Cypher School, Bletchley Park. |
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GCHQ |
Government Communications Headquarters. |
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Gestapo |
Geheime Staatspolizei, German secret state police. |
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GRU |
Soviet military intelligence. |
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KGB |
Soviet intelligence service. |
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LRDG |
Long Range Desert Group, British. |
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MI5 |
Military Intelligence section 5. British counter-intelligence service. |
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MI6 |
Military Intelligence section 6. British espionage service, often known as SIS. |
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NID |
Naval Intelligence Department, British. |
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NKVD |
Narodnyy Kommissariat Vnutrennikh Del, Soviet secret police. |
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NSA |
National Security Agency, USA. |
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OKH |
Oberkommando des Heeres, German High Command. |
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OKW |
Oberkommando der Wehrmacht, German Armed Forces High Command. |
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OSS |
Office of Strategic Services, replaced by CIA, USA. |
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RFO |
Reich Foreign Office. |
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RSHA |
Reichssicherheitshauptamt, supreme state security department. Set up in 1939 to supervise the Gestapo and SD. |
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SA |
Sturmabteilung, or ‘Brownshirts’. Paramilitary wing of the Nazi party, replaced by the SS. |
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SBS |
Special Boat Service, British. |
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Section D |
SIS sabotage section. |
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SD |
Sicherheitsdienst, secret service branch of the SS. |
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SIM |
Servizio Italiano Militare, Italian Military Intelligence Service. |
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SIPO |
Sicherheitspolizei, security police of the Gestapo and SD. |
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SIS |
Secret Intelligence Service, British, also known as MI6. |
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Smersh |
‘Death to spies’, counter-intelligence service of the Red Army. |
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SOE |
Special Operations Executive, British Section D of SIS. |
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SS |
Schutzstaffel, or ‘protection squad’. The original title for Hitler’s bodyguard. |
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Station X |
GC & CS, Bletchley Park. |
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Ultra |
Ultra decodes encrypted Axis radio communications classified ‘Ultra Secret’. |
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Waffen-SS |
Military arm of the SS. |
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Walk-in |
Agent as a stranger, freelance, offers services to a particular government often not his own. |