British SIGINT in Palestine 1945-1948

davidbfpo · May 11, 2023

I have read a little on this issue, but not on GCHQ's work so the linked article is a bonus - even if the title is rather grand: Israel at 75: how inept British intelligence failed to contain Jewish independence groups
Link: Israel at 75: how inept British intelligence failed to contain Jewish independence groups

A sample passage:

Even when intelligence was accurately understood, it was difficult to act upon without alerting Haganah that its codes were insecure. GCHQ relied on a small cell, including future historian Bernard Lewis and another British Jew, Samuel Stalbow, to handle intelligence. They never leaked Britain’s top secret intelligence, unlike – as we shall see – the British government itself.
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Well two new to me information:

Deceptive intelligence, disseminated by none other than Kim Philby – later unmasked as a senior Soviet mole – sent Palestine’s top security and police officers to Beirut. Britain’s poor security at its headquarters was thus compounded by the absence of those meant to interpret warning intelligence. Terrorism destroyed part of Britain’s top secret intelligence unit and its grip on the intelligence picture weakened.
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