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Abwehr |
German Secret Service meaning ‘defence’ in German |
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Auto-Saharan |
Italian Long Range Desert Patrols |
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BRSS |
British Radio Security Service |
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‘C’ |
Head of British Secret Intelligence Service MI6 |
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CFSO |
Chief Field Security Officer |
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DSO |
Defence Security Officer |
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Enigma |
German code machine system |
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FSP |
Field Security Police |
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GC & CS |
Government Code and Cypher school, Bletchley Park |
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Golden Square |
Pro-Axis group of Iraqi officers |
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Grand Mufti |
Muslim religious/political leader |
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Horchzug |
radio monitoring platoon, later company Afrika Korps |
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KG 200 |
Luftwaffe special unit |
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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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MI8 |
Military Intelligence Section 8, British War Office (Army) cryptanalytic service |
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MI9 |
Military Intelligence Section 9, Escape and Evasion |
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Muslim Brotherhood |
Egyptian Nationalist Organisation |
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ND |
Geheime Nachrichtendienst (German Security Intelligence Service) |
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NKVD |
Narodny Kommissariat Vnutrennich Dyel (Soviet Secret Police) |
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OKH |
Oberkommando der Heeres (German Army High Command) |
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OKW |
Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (German Armed Forces High Command) |
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Pasha |
high official of the Ottoman Empire, used as title |
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Pianist |
Abwehr slang for clandestine radio operator |
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RTR |
Royal Tank Regiment |
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RSS |
Radio Security Service |
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SAS |
Special Air Service (British) |
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SD |
Sicherheitsdienst (SS Secret Service) |
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SDF |
Sudan Defence Force |
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Siguranza |
Romanian Security Police |
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SIM |
Servizio Informazione Militaire (Italian Secret Service) |
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SIME |
Security Intelligence Middle East (British) |
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SIS |
Secret Intelligence Service (British) otherwise MI6 |
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SOE |
Special Operations Executive |
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Turpitz Ufer |
HQ Abwehr Berlin |
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ULTRA |
Ultra decodes decryption of encrypted Axis radio communications classified Ultra Secret |
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W/T |
wireless telegraphy |
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Y-Section |
radio-reconnaissance and listening posts, British and German |