And vice versa. As an old boss of mine was wont to remark - ‘sometimes the comms don’t work and there’s no int, you still gotta fly’.

Good piece. And a perennial debate in the 🇬🇧IC since there’s been such a thing. There’s discussion in the 1920s on the lines of ‘this is not what we would have if we started with a clean sheet of paper but it is what it is’.

Sounds all very Greeks and Romans , vintage Harold MacMillan.

By the retired Int Corps warrant officer who was the only one in the section who had a clue what we really doing - obviously.

In an intelligence agency in a world long gone we had ‘word of the week’ that, whatever the subject, you had to work into your reporting under pain of death ( or cakes all round). Three words is impressive.

Cameras and the subsequent processing and analysis

Some are not so delighted because it means they’re going to have to actually do some work.

A bagpiping bunny - cool, very.

'Special Wireless Section' did have brief FWW usage for intercept units in Egypt & BAOR Mk1 at different times. But agree that it's Enigma and the associated security measures that see 'SI' as a term for product - can't recall ever seeing it in FWW or interwar.

Yum. Never understood why meat pies didn't make it across the Atlantic from 🇬🇧to 🇺🇸 in the Colonial era, or if they did they didn't persist. Cornish pasties have a foothold in Michigan and you can get Scotch pies in places that have Highland Games, but otherwise 🇺🇸is a bit of a meat pie desert.