More than 29,000 pages
of declassified material related to the World War II-era Target Intelligence
Committee (TICOM) are now publicly available following a recent transfer from
the National Security Agency to the National Archives and Records
Administration.
It was NSA’s final
transfer of its material related to TICOM, a joint project that began in 1944
between the United States and the United Kingdom. The now-famous “Monuments
Men” searched for precious works of art that had been looted by the Nazis with
the goal of returning items to their rightful owners. In contrast, TICOM teams
followed Allied armies into occupied areas of Western Europe to seize material
and equipment Axis powers used for code-breaking and code-making, including the
German Enigma cipher. The teams also tried to determine how successful the
Germans had been in breaking Allied codes. Through these efforts, the United
States and the United Kingdom aimed to read more of the encrypted
communications of retreating Nazi armies and better protect their own
information from German eavesdropping.
The declassified
material is housed at the Archives II facility in College Park, Md. More
information about how to locate records held by the National Archives is
available at https://catalog.archives.gov/id/5957379.
Information about the
National Security Agency is available at www.nsa.gov.
A list of all the files is available from NARA’s
website. There are a lot of interesting files, for example:
7131N, Interrogation
of Kapitan von Baumbach, Head of OKM/III from 1942-1944 [(U) INTERROGATION OF
CAPTAIN VON BAUMBACH]
7252 PAJ
Interrogation Report - Comdr. Hashimoto and Lt. Fuji (No TICOM REF #)
7254 PAJ
Interrogation Report - Rear Admiral Nomura; Capt. Morikawa; Comdr. Ozawa (No
TICOM #)
10663N PAJ
Interrogation Report on MAX (Parts 1 - 7) TICOM IF 118a-g
2778 Misc., Data on
the Soviet Union (C-1190) [TICOM DF-242 DATA ON THE SOVIET UNION (TRANSLATION
OF GERMANY DOCUMENT) ]
2781 Soviet
Subversive Activities Against Germany [TICOM DF-288 SOVIET SUBVERSEIVE
ACTIVITIES AGAINST GERMANY (TRANSLATION OF GREMAN DOCUMENT) ]
2841 Report on
Cipher Device #40 (S-4219 to 4133) [TICOM DF-200A-D REPORTS ON CIPHER DIVICE 40
(TRANSLATION OF GERMAN DOCUMENT) ]
2847 The Russian
Cipher Device - K37 (5-4146) [TICOM DF-217 RUSSIAN CIPHER DEVICE K-37
(TRANSLATION OF GERMAN DOCUMENT) ]
2855 The French
Cipher Machine, C-36 (Hagelin) (5-4190) [TICOM DF-247B ON FRENCH CIPHER MACHINE
C-36 (HAGELIN) (TRANSLATION OF GREMAN DOCUMENT) ]
2986 Regulations for
Staff Cryptologic Service in the Red Army (5-3740) [TICOM DF-96 REGULATIONS FOR
STAFF CRYPTOLOGIC SERVICE IN THE RED ARMY (TRANSLATION OF GERMAN DOCUMENT) ]
2988 Encipherment of
OKK6 (Russian) (5-3742) [TICOM DF-97 ENCIPHERMENT OF OKK6 (TRANSLATION OF
GREMAN DOCUMENT WITH PHOTOGRAPHIC PRINTS AND NEGATIVES) ]
3005 Russian Map
Keys - 1944 to March 1945 (5-3821) [TICOM DF-131 RUSSIAN MAP KEYS USED 1944
[MARCH 1945] (TRANSLATION OF GERMAN DOCUMENT) ]
3343 Japanese
Special Intelligence (SIGINT) Organization [TICOM REPORT ON JAPENESE SPECIAL
INTELLEGENCE (SIGINT) ORGANIZATION ]
3419 Report on
Japanese Cryptologic and cryptanalytic Operations [TICOM REPORTS ON JAPENESE
CRYPTOLOGIC AND CRYPTANALYTIC OPERATIONS ]
5098 Finnish Monthly
Reports on Russian Naval Message to 1944 [CIPHERT SURVEY # 17M (NAVAL MESSAGES)
COPY OF TICOM DOCUMENT 542 AND TRANSLATIONS ]
5573 Allied Keys to
1938 [FILES DEALING WITH BRITISH, FRENCH AND DANNISH CODES AND CIPHERS ON
ALLIEED KEYS TO 1938]
5608 Mathematical
Notes on Polish equipment Encipherment [TRANSLATION OF ARTICLE ENTITLED
"MATHEMATICAL NOTES ON THE POLISH ENCIPHERMENT" ]
5654 Observation on
French Diplomatic Style [TRANSLATION OF OBSERVATION ON FRENCH DIPLOMATIC STYLE]
5781 Dettman:
Conclusion [TICOM DF-181 TRANSLATION OF DETTERMAN CONCLUSION ]
6604 TICOM Team
Activity in Far East - 1945 (Folder 1 of 5) [JAPANESE TICOM #1-4 REPORTS OF 7
SEPTEMBER 1945, UNITED STATES TICOM TEAMS ACTIVITY REPORTS]
7007 Analysis &
Evaluation of the Japanese Intelligence service and It’s Affect on United
States Signal security [TICOM S-2 ANALYSIS AND EVALUATION OF JAPANESE
INTELLIGENCE SERVICE AND EFFECT ON U.S. SIGNAL SECURITY]
7212 The Development
of Russian Cryptographic Systems [TICOM DF-94 TRANSLATION OF TICOM DOCUMENT
2765, DEVELOPMENT OF RUSSIAN CRYPTOGRAPHIC SYSTEMS]
7723 Survey of Czech
Systems - 1945-1949 [TICOM DF-189, TRANSLATION OF SURVEY OF CZECH SYSTEMS
1945-1949]
7762 Correspondence
Re: Allied Keys May 1941 - July 1942 [TICOM 515 COPY OF CORRESPONDENCE RELATED
TO ALLIED KEYS, MAY 1941 TO JULY 1942]
7765 German Studies
Allied Ciphers June 1941 - June 1942 (Folder 1 of 2) [TICOM 517 COPY OF GERMAN
STUDIES OF U.S. AND BRITISH CIPHERS, JUNE 1941 - APRIL 1943]
7773 Procedure Used
in Breaking Turkish Diplomatic Traffic [TICOM 2258 DF-12 REVISED, COPY OF
PERCEDURE USED IN BREAKING TURKISH DIPLOMATIC TRAFFIC]
8125 Czech
Diplomatic Messages and Decrypts [COPY OF CZECH LANGUAGE DIPLOMATIC MESSAGE AND
DECRYPTS 1920 - 1921]
8143 Reports on Interrogations of Japanese Former
Cryptanalysts [INTERROGTAION REPORTS OF EIGHT FORMER JAPANESE CRYPTANALYSIS]
8532 German Deciphering 5-LTR TRF between Tokyo and European
Capitals [TICOM 2533 COPY OF GERMAN DECIPHERING ATTEMPTS OF FIVE-LETTER TRAFFIC
BETWEEN TOKYO AND EUROPEAN CAPITALS]
8747 German - Vierling (Feuerstein) Library/Laboratory
1946-1952 [TICOM M-1 REPORT ON DR. VIERLING'S LABORATORY AT EBERMANNSTADT AND LIBRARY
PAPERS, 1946-1952 ]
8774 Jap Cryptographic Worksheets MA Systems 1934-1939
[TICOM 18, COPIES OF GERMAN WORKSHEETS ON JAPANESE MACHINE SYSTEM 48, 1934 -
1939]
8775 Chinese Diplomatic Code and Translations [TICOM 4 COPY
OF CHINESE DIPLOMATIC DECODES AND TRANSLATIONS, 1944 - 1945]
8919 Solution of the M-209 Hagelin Machine [TICOM 1-35A COPY
OF SOLUTION IF THE M-209 HAGELIN MACHINE]
10168 Reports on the Solution of the Russian Cipher
Procedure "Misteriya" [REPORT ON THE SOLUTION OF THE RUSSIAN CIPHER
PROCEDURE "MISTERIYA" ]
10349 German Cryptanalysis on American Cryptographic Systems
[TICOM NOTE 23: COPY OF BRIEF SURVEY OF THE CRYPTANALYSIS OF AMERICAN
CRYPTOGRAPHIC SYSTEMS BY THE GERMAN CRYPTANALYTIC SERVICE DURING WORLD WAR II]
10955 Scientific Writings from Pers Z Archives [TICOM
DOCUMENTS #376, COPY OF SCIENTIFIC WRITINGS FROM PERS Z ARCHIVES, DECEMBER 7,
1942]
11099 Finnish Working on Various Russian Codes (S-8778)
[COPY OF FINNISH WORKINGS ON VARIOUS RUSSIAN CODES]
12551 German Intelligence and Insight from Working on Radio
Traffic of the Soviet Air Force [TICOM DOCUMENT OKL 483 COPY OF GERMAN
INTELLIGENCE AND INSIGHT FROM WORKING ON RADIO TRAFFIC OF THE SOVIET AIR FORCE
]
18732 Fills in the History of Russian Diplomatic Systems
[TICOM DOCUMENT 1035 COPY OF FILLS IN THE HISTORY OF RUSSIAN DIPLOMATIC AND
COMMERCIAL SYSTEMS, 1929 - 1935]
24474 TICOM - "Feuerstein" Technical Project
Reports - 1945 (Folder 1 of 4) [DETAILED FEUERSTEIN TECHNICAL PROJECT REPORT]
32957 French/Polish Radio Traffic Regulations in Event of
War [TICOM NO.T 3624 FRENCH/POLISH RADIO TRAFFIC REGULATIONS IN EVENT OF WAR ]
44405 Red Army Field Post Listing - Captured German Document
1944 [FIELD POST NUMBERS OF THE RED ARMY]
46891 Pythagoras - Italian Diplomatic Code (Folder 1 of 2)
[TICOM DOCUMENT NO. 250, COPY OF PYTHAGORAS, JULY 1936-1939]
46893 TCIOM No. 3293 Berichte Der Grouppe F (Folder 1 of 3)
[TICOM DOCUMENT NO.
3293 COPY OF BERICHTE DER GRUPPE F]
47114 Berichte Uber Den Stand Der Entzifferungsarbeiten
April 1916 - October 1918 [BERICHTE UBER DEN STAND DER ENTZIFFERUNGSARBEITEN
APRIL 1916 - OCTOBER 1918]
6964 Glossary of German Cryptanalytic Terms [TICOM REPORT
I-117: GLOSSARY OF GERMAN CRYPTANALYTIC TERMS ]
10160 State Department Reports on German Foreign Office
[TICOM REPORT IF-266: DEPARTMENT OF STATE REPORTS ON THE GERMAN FOREIGN OFFICE
(COPY OF STATE DEPARTMENT REPORTS) ]
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