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INDEX

The page references in this index correspond to the printed edition from which this ebook was created. To find a specific word or phrase from the index, please use the search feature of your ebook reader.

Abhorchdienst
(German army codebreaking unit) 260

Abinger, Lord 132

Abteilung Drei-Bai
(Section 3B) (German military intelligence unit) 35

Abwehr
(German military and diplomatic intelligence) 303, 304

Adcock, Frank 27

Admiralty, British 3, 4, 9, 10, 11, 15,
15
, 17, 19, 21, 22, 26, 31, 38, 42, 57, 82, 93, 101, 104, 115, 117, 118, 123, 127, 128, 133, 140, 158, 160, 161, 195, 198, 212, 229, 231, 234, 284, 289, 290, 295, 299
see also
Room 40

Admiralty, French 237

Admiralty, German 19–20

AFDGX/AFDGVX cipher 273–5

agents, field
see under individual agent name

Air Organisation and Home Defence Against Air Raids, British 109

Aircraft 29, 102–9, 167–9, 251

Albert, Dr Heinrich 61,
61
, 63, 83–5, 87, 91

Alert
(cable-laying ship) 4

Alfonso XIII of Spain, King 136

Alice in ID25
(play) (Birch/Knox) 287–8

Allenby, General 250–1

Allgemeines Funkpruchbuch
(AFB) (German code book) 106, 107

Allies
see under individual nation name

American Correspondent Film Company 84

American Expeditionary Force (AEF) 265–72, 275–8

American Protective League (APL) 219–20

American Trench Code 276

Amiens, Battle of, 1918 279–81

Anderson, Brigadier General Francis 52

Annie Larsen
222, 223, 225

Arab Bureau, British 247–9

Arabia 240–1, 242, 247–9

Arabic
, RMS 85–6

archaeology/archaeologists 28, 244, 246–7, 248, 270, 301

Archibald, James 85–6, 195

Argentina 139, 207–11

Ariadne
30

Armistice, 1918 286, 287

Army Cipher Disk 192, 275–6

Army War College, US 214, 215

Arnold (German agent operating in Argentina) 210–11

Asquith, Herbert Henry 114, 118

Asturias
43

Aud
149–50

Australian forces 19, 20, 241

Austro-Hungary 3, 35, 69–70, 79, 83, 85, 86, 135, 137, 166, 187, 195, 209, 235, 237, 255

Baghdad, Mesopotamia (Iraq) 1, 240, 245–6, 247, 251

Bailey, Daniel Julian 149–50

Baker, Newton 184, 215

Balfour, Arthur 196, 215

Baltimore, port of, US 175–6, 181, 192,
193

Barret, José 136

Bayley, Mrs 230

Beatty, Admiral David 13, 14, 29–30, 157, 159, 161, 283–4, 286, 288

Bebeau, Private A. L. 281

Befehlstafel
(German code book) 260

Bell, Edward 136, 195, 198, 210–11, 212

Bernstorff, Count Johann von 34,
34
, 35, 36, 38, 40, 45, 46, 60, 61, 62, 65, 66, 67, 68, 84, 85–7, 92, 96, 145, 146, 177, 185, 192, 194, 196, 209

Bethmann-Hollweg, Chancellor Theobald von 92, 146, 147, 186–7

Bey, Talaat 114–15

Biddle, Nicholas 216

Bielaski, A. Bruce 219–20

biological/biochemical weapons 1, 130, 135–6, 174–7, 211

Birch, Frank 156, 229, 230, 287

Black Hand 89, 219

Black Tom Island, New York 177–84,
179
, 203, 206, 297

Bletchley Park 3, 300–5

Blitz of the Harvest Moon, 1917 109

Bloomsbury set 55

Bloor, Colonel A. W. 277

Blücher
30

Blücher, Princess 50

Bluebell
, HMS 150

Boer War, 1899–1902 52, 148, 161

Bolsheviks 255, 256, 258, 285

Bomb and Neutrality Squad, NYPD
88
, 89, 90–2, 95, 216, 223–4, 225

Boniface, Bonford 76

Bopp, Franz von 182, 221, 224, 226

Borden, Robert 279

Boy-Ed, Captain Karl 63, 65, 69, 71, 73, 74, 79, 80, 82, 86–7, 92, 97, 181, 183

Brazil 139, 142, 152–3, 208, 210

Bridgeport Projectile Company 84

Briggs, Albert M. 220

Britain: codebreaking units
see
Military Intelligence Section 1b – MI1(b) (British military codebreaking unit)
and
Room 40; dominance of international telegraph traffic 3–5; First World War and
see
First World War
and under individual area, armed force or battle name;
wireless invention and 2, 3, 4–5, 9–11,
10

British Embassy, 44 Whitehall Street, New York City 69, 95, 145

British Expeditionary Force (BEF) 3, 47, 52, 53, 161–2, 274, 282; battles
see under individual battle and front name
; codebreaking and 161–9, 259–63
see also
Military Intelligence Section 1b – MI1(b) (British military codebreaking unit); telephone procedures/security 162–7; wireless communication on the Western Front 161–9, 259–63
see also
First World War

British Grand Fleet 23, 25, 29, 157–61, 284
see also
Royal Navy
and under individual engagement name

British Indian army (D Force) 239–40, 243–4, 245

British Remount Service 174

Brooke-Hunt, Captain 139

Browne, Lord Arthur 56, 57

Bulgaria 93, 137, 138, 209

Bünz, Dr Carl 74, 75

Bureau de Chiffre
, France 53, 271, 273

Bureau of Investigation (BI), Justice Department, US 87, 219–20

Bureau of Investigation, German 90–2, 183

Burke, Frank 83, 84

Burns, Jesse 183

Cairo, Egypt 1, 239, 241–2, 245, 247, 248, 249, 251

Canada 36, 64–8, 85, 96, 180, 223, 257–8, 279–82

Canadian Corps 279–82

Canadian Independent Force 281

Canadian Pacific Railway 66–8

Candidate
43

Capitol Building, Washington DC, bombing of, 1915 79–80,
79

Carranza, Venustiano 188, 189, 191

Carroll, Lewis:
Alice in Wonderland
287–9;
Jabberwocky
302

Cartier, Colonel François 273

Casement, Roger 141–3, 144,
144
, 145, 146–7, 148, 149, 150–3,
152
, 187, 211

Central Powers
see under individual nation name

Centurion
43

Chakravarty, Dr Chandra 223–4, 225, 226

Chandra, Ram 221, 225, 226

Charteris, Brigadier General John 163–4

Cheka
255

Childers, Erskine 143

Choctaw troops 266,
266
, 276–8

Christensen, Eivind Adler 146

Churchill, Winston 4, 14, 15, 19, 21, 22, 27, 29, 93, 101, 113, 114, 115–19, 231

cipher keys 29, 52, 103, 105, 130, 139, 156, 227, 254, 286

Citation for Meritorious Service 269–70

City of Memphis
198

Clan na Gael 144, 148

Clarke, Russell 18, 230

Clarke, William F. 12, 229, 230, 290

Clauson, Gerard 244, 245, 246

Clayton, Colonel Gilbert 247

Cobb, Frank 95

code books 18–20, 59, 60, 69, 102–3, 106–8, 128, 137, 139, 140, 168, 192, 198, 237–8, 242, 254, 260, 276, 286, 290

codes/codebreakers: American
see
United States of America; Austro-Hungarian 3, 237, 255; British 3, 161–9, 259–63
see also
Military Intelligence Section 1b – MI1(b) (British military codebreaking unit)
and
Room 40; characteristics of codebreakers
see
Military Intelligence Section 1b – MI1(b) (British military codebreaking unit); Room 40: recruitment
and under individual codebreaker name
; cipher keys 29, 52, 103, 105, 130, 139, 156, 227, 254, 286; code books and
see
code books; communications technology revolution and 1–2, 9–11, 17–18; diplomatic code 3, 56–7, 60, 69, 71, 137, 139, 185–6, 192–3, 209, 289; emergence of the modern security state and 1, 2; French 2, 53, 163, 166, 215–16, 237, 269, 271–5, 276, 302; Greek 137; German
see
Germany; influence on the outcome of First World War 1, 3; Italian 230, 237, 302, 303; Japanese 301; Russian 3, 243, 254, 255; Turkish 235, 239–51; South American 140
see also under individual code name

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