Christos military and intelligence corner

The US Army Center of Military History website has a catalog of their publications. Many of these books can be downloaded as pdf’s! Some ...

The German cryptologic organizations of WWII employed a lot of Phd’s in Mathematics.   Thanks to website The Mathematics Genealogy Project...

During the war several organizations run agents in occupied Europe for the allied side. Britain had SIS and SOE and the US had OSS. The O...

Time for a new file: CSDIC (U.K.) SIR 1704 – ‘The organization and history of the Cryptologic service within the German Army’. It has detai...

Kim Philby  was a British intelligence officer who distinguished himself in one department. He is probably the archetype of the ‘mole’, the ...

In war it is said that it is not the side with the best tanks, or the best guns that wins but the one with the best logistics. This was undo...

I added new British diplomatic codes in Codes used by the Major Allied powers .

The use of secret intelligence and codebreaking during WWII, by both the Allies and Axis, is a fascinating subject. For the German side some...