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Eavesdropping on Hitler’s Reich
No open use of the damning C.S.D.I.C. reports was made at
Nuremberg, to the rage of the American officers. Major Ernst Englander,
who had operated as “Major Emery” at Latimer and as “Major
Evans” at Augsburg, wrote to Jackson protesting that they knew
full well from the overheard conversations that Erhard Milch and
other generals were lying to cover Reichsmarschall Göring But the
security considerations of British Military Intelligence prevailed.
Meanwhile, as is seen in the final section of this book, Colonel
Kendrick had sent C.S.D.I.C. specialists to Cambridgeshire
to equip yet another secret mansion, Farm Hall, with the hidden
microphones that were their speciality, for a very special batch of
prisoners – Germany’s atomic scientists. (The complete, fascinating
records of their private conversations have only recently been
released to researchers.) Major Rittner was placed in charge of this
operation.
In the autumn of 1945 C.S.D.I.C. was disbanded. On October
19, 1945, the inmates of No.11 Camp (at Latimer) were evacuated,
some to Nuremberg for the trials, some to the U.S.A., and some to
internment in Germany. While overseas the C.S.D.I.C. units continued
to use its equipment and techniques, C.S.D.I.C.(U.K.) was
formally closed down on November 7, 1945 and M.I.19, its governing
department, ceased to exist on the following day, being amalgamated
again with M.I.9.
a word about the files of the C.S.D.I.C. There is no trace of the
sound recordings in the public archives. The main archive collection
of C.S.D.I.C. administrative files and transcripts has been opened
at the Public Record Office, at Kew, London, as part of the War
Office’s Military Intelligence files (record group WO.208). Apart
from the transcript series, several general files are also open, including
e.g. WO. 208�3541-63, CSDIC East Africa, North Africa, and
India; �3460, appreciations of C.S.D.I.C.’s work;�3540-46, the proposed
amendment to C.S.D.I.C. (U.K.) war establishment, October
l940 to March 1945; and �3533, liaison with A.A. [Flak] command.
Schr. Ernst Englander, New York, to R H Jackson, Nuremberg, March.1946
Schr. Ernst Englander, New York, to R H Jackson, Nuremberg, March.1946
(Libr of Congress: Nachlaß Jackson).