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1942-1945 (Creation)
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- Great Britain. Admiralty. Naval Intelligence Division
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Textual records in Boxes 106-110
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The Naval Intelligence Division (NID) was established in 1887 as the Director of Naval Intelligence at the Admiralty. Its mandate was to collect, classify and record with a complete index all information which bears a naval character or which may be of value during naval matters. With the creation of the Naval Staff in 1917, the NID had been gradually restricted to intelligence responsibilities. After the First World War, NID's standing among the divisions of the Naval Staff was much reduced, and its influence in the Admiralty was similar to that of the intelligence branches in the other Service ministries.
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Series consists of weekly intelligence reports issued by the Admiralty Naval Intelligence Division during the Second World War. The information was for of all British officers in H.M. Navy and for all British officials to whom the reports were officially distributed. The contents of the reports included five parts including: weekly naval notes (current events); special contributions (naval articles and/or information of a general interest); political (naval articles and/or information re a specific country; divided by individual country; Naval intelligence (disposition of German, Italian and Japanese naval fleets and enemy submarine activities); and Merchant Shipping (information regarding attacks on merchantmen, overdue ships, allied convoys, German and Italian shipping).
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