By Kenneth Macksey
With the renewed curiosity in wartime intelligence, a well timed background of radio intercepting solutions the query of ways enemy messages are detected within the first position. the focal point is at the early war-shortening Y and Radio Intercept companies, and their brilliantly smart inventors and technologists who proved to be unsung heroes with headphones clamped to their ears.
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The first was a scheme analogous to the Third Country system that remains the standard operational doctrine in SIS to this day. The second was a proposed field organization that anticipated the operational infrastructure of Cumming’s wartime MI1c in almost every respect. The third was a model of integrated tasking, collection, evaluation and even all-source analysis that both put intelligence collection into a more comprehensive context than previous ad hoc arrangements had imagined, and also anticipated the need for a tasking, collation and analysis architecture that would not systematically evolve until the interwar period.
Planning for a larger-scale, offensive intelligence capability was not confined to the military minds at MO5, however. The Foreign Office was also engaged in the formulation and consideration of plans for a foreign intelligence system in 1905. However, where MO5 thinking focused on operations in support of military requirements, the Foreign Office approach focused on economic information. 21 However, unlike MO5’s plans to expand its own collection capabilities, the Foreign Office approach was more inclined to seek information and assistance from nongovernmental, British interests already active abroad, such as private firms and business associations.
21 MI6 AND THE MACHINERY OF SPYING 22. Duncan Campbell, ‘Friends and Others’, New Statesman and Society 26 November 1982. The overall accuracy of Campbell’s charts was explicitly vouched for by i-29, while interview data from i-20 and i-28 will be seen to confirm and elaborate Campbell’s information. 23. Richard Norton-Taylor, In Defence of the Realm? (London: Civil Liberties Trust, 1990); the chart on p. 62 is drawn from Campbell’s 1982 publication, while the summary on p. 50 is drawn in part from Anthony Cavendish’s description of SIS structure in 1948, and West’s slightly muddled summary from the Friends of the SIS organization in 1946.