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http://www.angelfire.com/dc/1spy/acronyms.html#1m claims that MI8 "was responsible for monitoring broadcasts having to do with German bombers during the Blitz; also called the Radio Security Service," and that the branch "dealing with escape and evasion in World War II" - which seems more like what this entry describes - was MI9.

I note that MI5 says the same thing, so I'm going to move this there.

There's now an another entry Black Chamber that seems to duplicate much of this article. One of these entries should probably redirect to the other, but which should be the main article?

One thought...currently this article (MI8) deals with two MI8s, so it might be convenient to deal with the American MI8 in Black Chamber, and the British MI8 here, with a disambiguation header to point people in the right direction. — Matt 23:31, 16 Sep 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Radio Security Service

"Also known as the Radio Security Service, it tracked radio broadcasts about German bombers during The Blitz."

I don't that is correct and have doubts about the relationaship between MI8 and the RSS. Perhaps a separate page is need for the RSS.

I understood that the RSS was an organisation set up early in WWII using mainly radio amateurs. These were used to monitor for any enemy radio transmissions within the UK initially as it was thought that there could be transmissions as beacons for bombers and also from enemy agents. It then was used to monitor for transmissions from Europe which were posted to a Post Office Box number and eventually used by Bletchley Park.

As things got better organised there were monitoring stations set up and many of the RSS monitors were called up into the armed forces.

The RAF had their own "Y" service for monitoring transmissions from enemy aircraft and the Royal Signals, RN and others had their own similar organisations. --jmb 11:48, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

RSS VIs

RSS

[edit] SCU

"After D-Day Special Communications Units (SCU) were created to disseminate the ULTRA material"

I thought that SCU were in operation before then? I am sure I have seen references to them in North Africa but just going from memory. --jmb 23:38, 27 November 2006 (UTC)