Representative handling 13-Land Belgium (becomes 8
in 1943 March)
14000 Representative handling 14-Land Roumania /Romania/
Rumania
15000 Representative handling 15-Land Hungary
16000 Representative handling 16-Land Ireland
17000 Egypt
18000 Representative handling 18-Land Turkey
19000 Representative handling 19-Land Denmark
21000 Representative handling 21-Land Finland
22000 Atlantic Islands (including the UK)
22116 Azores*
22500 Czechoslovakia
22600 Yugoslavia (old symbol as at late 1946)
22500 England/GB Counter-Intelligence
22850 MI6 Section IX Officer Harry Steptoe
23000 Representative handling 23-Land Spain [or Toulouse*]
23500 Madrid*
24000 Representative handling 24-Land Portugal
27000 Representative handling 27-Land France
29000 Representative handling 29-Land Czechoslovakia
31000 Latvia*
32000 Representative handling 32-Land Italy
32700/V Captain Dawson, Vatican
33000 Representative handling 33-Land Holland
35000 Representative handling 35-Land Jugoslavia/Yugoslavia
36000 Representative handling 36-Land Sweden
37000 Representative handling 37-Land Japan
38000 Representative handling 38-Land Poland
41000 Representative handling 41-Land Greece
42000 Representative handling 42-Land Switzerland
43000 Estonia
44000 Representative handling 44-Land Austria
45000 Representative handling 45-Land France
48000 Representative handling 48-Land USA
49000 Representative handling 49-Land Malta
51000 Representative handling 51-Land Morocco and Tangier
from Gibraltar
52000 North Africa
53000 Abyssinia
56000 Representative handling 56-Land North Africa/Tangier
57000 Lubigo (Angola)
58000 East Africa
58300 (PEA) [58-Land Portuguese East Africa/Kenya]
59000 West Africa
75000 Representative handling 75-Land South America
82000 Iraq
83000 Iran
86000 Middle East (HQ)
87000 Lebanon
88000 Representative handling 88-Land Palestine &
Transjordan
89000 Representative handling 89-Land League of Nations
subsequently ME/Middle East
89000 may also be Alexander [cryptonym] otherwise Lt Col
J P O Shelley SOE
89700 symbol for Lt Col Rodney O Dennys as at July 1945, based
Cairo, then Germany
92000 Italy (new symbol as at late 1946)
93000 Norway*
95000 Representative handling 95-Land Russia/USSR
99000 Wartime MI6 agents in Norway, Denmark, Holland,
Belgium, France, Spain and Portugal
34800 - shown as Allied Agent reports in summary listing of
CX/letter/letter bigram/digraph indicators used to identify
sigint product from GC & CS. Indicators originally
introduced to simulate SIS agent/source reporting and
disguise fact that source was cryptographic. The CX/MSS
classification on any series of reports denotes intelligence
derived from decrypts of German Army and Air Force
high-grade machine traffic (Enigma).)
* Indicates Station code numbers reported in an SIS Station Code Book reproduced in “The Secret Wireless War”, by Geoffrey Pidgeon, p 359, UPSO, 2003. The last entry was made in July 1940.
Most other entries in the above list come from the UK’s National Archives website http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ and is Crown copyright, reproduced in accordance with the Open Government Licence for Public Sector Information see http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/.
Specialist Terms, Codenames And Abbreviations
A Force. British military organization responsible for planning
and implementing deception in the Mediterranean theatre.
AAI. Allied Armies in Italy - The Allied army group in Italy from
March to December 1944.
Abt I/II/III Abteilung. Each a section of the Abwehr
responsible for espionage (I), sabotage (II), and counter-
espionage (III), respectively.
Abwehr. Amt Ausland/Abwehr im Oberkommando
der Wehrmacht - The espionage service of the Oberkommando
der Wehrmacht (OKW).
