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2 unusual facts about Intelligence Corps


Frederick Hotblack

Hotblack was commissioned into the Royal Norfolk Regiment in 1915 and served in the First World War as an intelligence officer in France before transferring to the then "Heavy Branch" of the Machine Gun Corps (later the Royal Tank Corps) in 1916.

Louis Osman

During the Second World War he was a Major in the Intelligence Corps serving with the Combined Operations Headquarters and Special Air Service as a specialist in Air Photography.


Aharon Solomons

In 1957, he was inducted into his father's regiment, the Coldstream Guards, and was commissioned as an officer in the Intelligence Corps and served in the Middle East.

Geoffrey Van Orden

He attended the Mons Officer Cadet School and was commissioned into the Intelligence Corps in 1964.

Oswald Wynd

When World War II came he joined the Scots Guards but was then commissioned into the Intelligence Corps and sent to Malaya.


see also

Bensheim

As the U.S. Army Counter Intelligence Corps agent, Henry Kissinger was the most important representative of the occupying power, after the official town commander.

British Security Coordination

Eric Maschwitz - screenwriter, lyricist and broadcaster, Intelligence Corps officer

Burke Marshall

He joined the army, working in the intelligence corps as a Japanese translator and cryptoanalyst.

Danny Stannard

His brother Richard Stannard, a former captain in the British Army Military Police, joined the Rhodesian Army shortly before Independence as a Lieftenant Colonel in Public Relations, later becoming OC ZIC (Zimbabwe Intelligence Corps) under Mugabe.

Friedrich Josef Rauch

According to SHAEF regulations, Rauch should have been automatically arrested due to his SS rank, but he was not interned until 27 November when a special Counter Intelligence Corps agent seized and interrogated him at Tegernsee city jail.

Israel Defense Prize

Some of the past recipients include Israel Tal, Moshe Arens, Uzi Gal and various teams of the Intelligence corps, the Mossad, the General Security Service and weapon industries.

James Garden

He was a lieutenant in the Intelligence Corps in the North-West Rebellion in 1875 and was wounded in the Battle of Batoche.

James Ramsay Montagu Butler

In World War II, Butler returned to military service in the Army Intelligence Corps, recruiting many former students including Bernard Willson to work on code breaking at Bletchley Park.

John Killick

He served in the British Army during World War II, first in the Suffolk Regiment, later in the 1st Airborne Division in which he commanded the 89th Field Security Section (Intelligence Corps) at Arnhem.

Kenneth Garside

He was commissioned into the Intelligence Corps in 1941, and served in the Headquarters, 21 Army Group, in 1945, where he was instrumental in establishing The Intelligence Library of the Control Commission for Germany in Bad Oeynhausen (later moved to Herford).

Zwingenberg

Henry Kissinger, who acted as an agent in the U.S. Army Counter Intelligence Corps in Bensheim, lived for a few months at the Arthur-Sauer-Villa, which was requisitioned for him, in Zwingenberg.