Report on Bombing in London Area
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USSR | Ref. No: 3/PPDT/T113 (previously issued as 3/NBF/T1776 on 17.3.1966) Issued: 19/5/1971 Copy No.: 10 |
(AUGUST 1940)
From: | LONDON | |
To: | MOSCOW | |
No: | 930 | 23rd August 1940 |
To DZhON[i].
1. Today between 1455 and one o'clock in the morning the Germans bombed the industrial area of EDMONTON in north LONDON.
[45 groups unrecoverable]
pass through the coastal defences of the English and counter attacks by fighter aircraft. For this reason, it is said, the English do not hear the approach of the aircraft.
No. 237 | DIK [ii] |
Comments: | [i] | DZhON: Moscow addressee. |
[ii] | DIK: ie. "DICK"; unidentified covername. |
Source(s):
United States National Security Agency
Added By:
C. Peter Chen
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