Cadix.

This is coolbert:

"Cadix was the codename of a World War II clandestine Allied intelligence center that operated at Uzès, on the Mediterranean coast in southern, Vichy France, for over two years, from September 1940 to November 9, 1942."

"[a] French-Polish-Spanish-staffed center"

"Its personnel comprised the 15 Poles as well as nine Frenchmen and seven Spaniards (the latter worked on Italian and Fascist Spanish ciphers)".

Multi-national, clandestine, radio-intelligence unit working in denied territory for the allies. Working very well too. Contributed significantly in a manner you could have hardly expected.

Operated from Vichy controlled territory [southern France]. Under the noses of the Gestapo and French collaborators. In secret, with great courage and skill. MEN WITH GUTS AND REMARKABLE ABILITIES THAT ARE TO BE ADMIRED!!



Having a multi-national force of this type is unheard of?? Especially in radio-intelligence work. Intercepting German communications. Doing analysis and decryption of secret communication when possible to produce intelligence for the allies. Spanish-Polish-French personnel working successfully in concert!

Refugees all of them, Spanish, I would surmise Republicans, Poles fleeing the Germans, and defeated French working purportedly for the Vichy but actually doing so for the allies.

And before PC Cadix there was PC Bruno.

"PC Bruno was a Polish-French intelligence station that operated outside Paris during World War II. German ciphers were decrypted there, most notably messages enciphered on the Enigma machine. ('PC' is an abbreviation for the French term Poste de Commandement — 'Command Post.)"

PC Bruno was up and running during the "Phoney War" and up to the fall of France to the German in the summer of 1940.

"Bletchley Park and PC Bruno worked together against the German message traffic with considerable success — in the interest of security, themselves corresponding in the "unbreakable" Enigma cipher".

TO SECURE THE SUCCESS OF "READING" GERMAN SECRET COMMUNICATIONS TRAFFIC, THE BRITISH AND FRENCH THEMSELVES USED THE ENIGMA MACHINE, WHAT WAS CALLED AN "ENIGMA DOUBLES". A copy of the Engima was used by the Allies to SAFEGUARD their own secret intelligence communications!!

Never heard of any of this before!! NOW, you have too!!

coolbert.