Historical Dictionary of Signals Intelligence by West Nigel;

Author:West, Nigel; [West, Nigel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Published: 2012-08-15T00:00:00+00:00

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KACZMARZYK, ADAM. A British Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) source in Poland, Adam Kaczmarzyk was a “walk-in” at the British embassy in Warsaw who identified himself as a cipher clerk working at the Warsaw Pact’s headquarters willing to spy for the British. The local SIS station assigned Gerald Warner to handle the source, codenamed BENEFICIARY, who was motivated by money, which he spent on his girlfriend and a new car. He was compromised when he attempted to recruit a colleague and was arrested in August 1967 when SIS held a rendezvous with Kaczmarzyk’s nominee. A member of the SIS station was expelled, along with his secretary, and BENEFICIARY was executed by a firing squad after a trial that lasted four days.

KAGNEW STATION. The National Security Agency intercept site in Ethiopia, Kagnew Station remained operational from 1943 until May 1977, when it was evacuated following a revolution in Addis Ababa.

KAMER 14. During World War II, a Dutch cryptographic organization worked on intercepted Japanese cipher traffic at the Bandung Technical College.

KAMISEYA. One of the U.S. National Security Agency’s largest overseas sites, Kamiseya was accommodated in the underground tunnels of a former Japanese World War II torpedo storage facility and processed traffic intercepted from China and the Soviet Union.

KEY. Allied cryptographers working on Enigma traffic during World War II referred to the individual machine settings as the key. The settings, or starting points, consisted of the device’s four variables, being the selection of three rotors from the eight available; the order in which the three were inserted into the machine, the precise positions, from a choice of 26, for each of the rotors; and the wiring of the plugboard.

KOLBE, FRITZ. Born in Berlin in September 1900, Fritz Kolbe was an anti-Nazi member of the Reich’s foreign ministry who traveled regularly to Switzerland as a diplomatic courier from August 1943. On his visit to Bern on 18 August, Kolbe made contact with Allen Dulles of the U.S. Office of Strategic Services (OSS) and began to supply him with copies of original foreign ministry telegrams. In his first batch were dispatches from the German ambassadors Franz von Papen in Ankara, Otto Abetz in Paris, and Konstantin von Neurath in Prague, and, in addition, Kolbe volunteered information about the Foreign Ministry’s one-time pad cipher system, revealed that the German legation in Dublin contained a secret wireless transmitter that had not been declared to the Irish authorities, and claimed that some American military codes had been broken by German cryptanalysts.

Initially unconvinced that Kolbe was not an agent provocateur, Dulles received Kolbe on two further occasions during 1943, twice in 1944, and twice in 1945. Altogether, he supplied some 1,600 copies of correspondence exchanged between Berlin and German diplomatic missions in 30 different countries. Finally satisfied that Kolbe was authentic, Dulles codenamed him GEORGE WOOD and forwarded his material to Washington, DC, where it was judged authentic.

Although Kolbe’s unexpected windfall might have been welcomed by the Allied signals-intelligence community, it actually caused dismay because exploitation of Enigma, Geheimschreiber, and

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