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Encyclopedia > Danesfield House

Manor House in the Chiltern Hills now used as a Hotel and Spa situated in Medmenham, Near Marlow, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom. Requisitioned in WW2 by the Air Ministry for the RAF to set up a Joint Service Imagery Intelligence (IMINT) Unit. Danesfield House was to IMINT, what Bletchley Park was to Signals Intelligence (SIGINT). Former Home the RAF Intelligence Branch. Chiltern can refer to the following places: Chiltern (district) Chiltern Forest Chiltern Hundreds Chiltern Hills Chiltern Railways Chiltern, Victoria in Australia See also: Chilton. ... Medmenham is a village in Buckinghamshire, England. ... Marlow is the name of several places around the world: Little Marlow, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom Marlow, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom Marlow, Germany Marlow, New Hampshire, USA Marlow, Oklahoma, USA Marlow Heights, Maryland, USA It is also the surname of Christopher Marlow and Philip Marlowe. ... Buckinghamshire (abbreviated Bucks) is a county in South East England. ... German soldiers at the Battle of Stalingrad World War II was the most extensive and costly armed conflict in the history of the world, involving the great majority of the worlds nations, being fought simultaneously in several major theatres, and costing tens of millions of lives. ... The Air Ministry was formerly a department of the United Kingdom Government, established in 1918 with the responsibility of managing the affairs of the (then newly formed) Royal Air Force. ... RAF is an abbreviation for: Royal Air Force -- the Air Force of the United Kingdom (see also Air Ministry) Red Army Fraction (Rote Armee Fraktion) -- a German terror organisation Rigas Autobusu Fabrika -- a factory making buses in Riga, Latvia Rapid Action Force in India Rachunarski Fakultet RAF is also an... IMINT, short for IMagery INTelligence, is an intelligence gathering discipline which collects information via satellite and aerial photography. ... During World War II, British and American cryptographers at Bletchley Park broke a large number of Axis codes and ciphers, including the German Enigma machine. ... SIGINT stands for SIGnals INTelligence, which is intelligence-gathering by interception of signals, whether by radio interception or other means. ... The Royal Air Force has its own dedicated intelligence branch. ...


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Bletchley Park - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (1584 words)
It was also chosen for its proximity to a major road (the A5) to London and to a route for telephone trunk lines.
The cottages in the stableyard were converted from a tack and feed house.
The Government Code and Cypher School (GC and CS), the intelligence bureau responsible for interception and decryption of foreign transmissions amongst other things, moved into the main house in 1939.
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