Category:Intelligence services of World War II - Wikipedia
The category applies to political, diplomatic, economic and military intelligence services of the Second World War, their strategies, doctrines, tactics and operations.
Edwin T. Layton - Wikipedia
Edwin Thomas Layton (April 7, 1903 – April 12, 1984) [1] was a rear admiral in the United States Navy. Layton is most noted for his work as an intelligence officer before and during World War II. He was the father of the historian Edwin T. Layton, Jr. [2]
During World War II, joint intelligence organizations and operations were initiated at national and theater level. These efforts in-creased collection, enhanced production, and ex-pedited dissemination of critical intelligence to commanders as well as national policymakers.
Reinhard Gehlen - Wikipedia
Reinhard Gehlen (3 April 1902 – 8 June 1979) was a German military and intelligence officer who served the Weimar Republic, Nazi Germany, and West Germany, and also worked for the United States during the early years of the Cold War.
M.I.9: The Ingenious Secret Service of World War Two | IWM
M.I.9 stands for Military Intelligence, Section 9, and was an ingenious branch of Second World War military intelligence, tasked with assisting evaders and escapers. Established on 23 December 1939, M.I.9 was based for most of the war at Wilton Park, Beaconsfield.
Secret Agents, Secret Armies: The Short Happy Life of the OSS
By the start of World War II, President Roosevelt realized the need for some sort of coordination for the gathering of intelligence. He chose General William “Wild Bill” Donovan to be the leader of the Office of the Coordinator of Information (COI) established on July 11, 1941.
Secret Agents, Secret Armies: Operation Mincemeat
The British intelligence services’ bizarre deception plan created by a spy novelist, a lawyer, and an RAF officer proved successful beyond expectations, deceiving the Germans about Allied plans for the invasion of Sicily.
Secret Agents, Secret Armies: Who Was the Real James Bond?
Before he became famous as the creator of James Bond in the 1950s, Ian Fleming (1908-1964) was an officer in the Royal Navy’s Naval Intelligence Department. He devised a number of wartime schemes worthy of a Bond novel.
Archived documents, many originally classified, and published histories show that Coast Guard intelligence oficers have turned up in some unlikely places—sometimes by design, sometimes by accident, but most by dint of the nature of Coast Guard operations and mis-sions.
LCDR Edwin T. Layton of PACFLT N2 - NHHC
When Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz took command of the Pacific Fleet in December 1941, Layton became Nimitz’s principal intelligence officer, which put Layton in a uniquely important...