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A list of some of the common abbreviations used in British and Commonwealth Army war diaries:
The following document was written by the British Director of Naval Intelligence in April 1941. It shows the conflicting priorities between the collection of intelligence on the one hand and the organisation of sabotage and subversion on the other. From the point of view of the Naval Intelligence Department (NID), the intelligence gathering abilities of the Secret Intelligence Service, or MI6 as they are more commonly and incorrectly known as, was of more importance than the subversive activities of the Spe
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