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NSA (National Security Agency) "Eavesdropping On Hell", by Robert J. Hanyok

Historical Guide to Western Communications Intelligence and the Holocaust, 1939-1945

UNITED STATES CRYPTOLOGIC HISTORY

Center for Cryptologic History
National Security Agency, 2005
Second Edition

Source/Author: The National Security Agency/Central Security Service (NSA/CSS) leads the U.S. Government in cryptology that encompasses both Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) and Information Assurance (IA) products and services, and enables Computer Network Operations (CNO) in order to gain a decision advantage for the Nation and our allies under all circumstances.

Disclaimer: To the best of our knowledge, this publication is in public domain and is no longer classified.

This book is dedicated to those cursed with the memory of this horror and to those who assumed the burden of its remembrance.
Eavesdropping on Hell: The National Security Agency/Central Security Service (NSA/CSS) leads the U.S. Government in cryptology that encompasses both Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) and Information Assurance (IA) products and services, and enables Computer Network Operations (CNO) in order to gain a decision advantage for the Nation and our allies under all circumstances.
Eavesdropping on Hell, National Security Agency

Table of Contents

- Table of Contents iii
- Preface and Acknowledgments 1
- A Note on Terminology 5
- Acknowledgments 7

 

Chapter1: Background

 

 11
- The Context of European and Nazi Anti-Semitism 11
- Previous Histories and Articles 14

 

Chapter 2: Overview of the Western Communications Intelligence System during World War II

 

 21
Step 1: Setting the Requirements,Priorities,and Division of Effort
24
Step 2: Intercepting the Messages
30
Step 3: Processing the Intercept
36
Step 4: Disseminating the COMINT
43
From Intercept to Decryption – the Processing of a German Police Message
51

 

Chapter 3: Sources of Cryptologic Records Relating to the Holocaust

 61

 

- The National Archives and Records Administration

 61
- The Public Record Office 67
- Miscellaneous Collections 71

 

Chapter 4: Selected Topics from the Holocaust

 

 75
A. The General Course of the Holocaust and Allied COMINT
76
B. Jewish Refugees, the Holocaust, and the Growing Strife in Palestine
86
C. The Vichy Regime and the Jews
89
D. The Destruction of Hungary’s Jews, 1944
94
E. Japan and the Jews in the Far East
99
F. Nazi Gold: National and Personal Assets Looted by Nazis and Placed in Swiss Banks, 1943 - 1945
104

 

Chapter 5: Some Observations about Western Communications Intelligence and the Holocaust

 121

 

- What was Known from COMINT

 122
- When the COMINT Agencies Knew 123
- Some Further Observations Regarding the Available Archival Records 126
- There are limited COMINT agency records about the Holocaust 126
- There are significant differences between the archival records holdings of the cryptologic agencies of the United States and Great Britain 128
- The Western communications intelligence agencies collected many more intercepts than they finally processed during the War 130
- There are pertinent uses for the available records from the COMINT agencies related to the Holocaust 131

 

Appendix 1:

  
Selected Allied Monitoring Stations (MS) and Designators 135

 

Appendix 2:

  
- Annotated Sample of Diplomatic Translations and German Police Decrypt 137

 

Appendix 3

  
- Attached Documents 139
- Vrba-Wetzler Cable, 26 June 1944 139
- German Foreign office message to Buenos Aiers regarding a pension applicant’s Jewish wife, 13 January 1943 146
- Spanish diplomatic message referring to Raoul Wallenberg 147
- VN 1260: German translation of intercepted U.S. Department of State message from embassy in Bern, Switzerland, 19 October 1944 148
- [DOS Nr. 6927] Regarding the status of interned Hungarian Jews 149
- German report of results of deportation of Hungarian Jews, 30 December 1944. From O.S.S. source “George Wood.” 150
   
Bibliography 155
   
Glossary of Terms, Abbreviations, and Acronyms 159
   
Index 161

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