Abwehr in a sentence

Abwehr hand ciphers were cracked early in the war and SD hand ciphers and Abwehr Enigma ciphers followed.

Heydrich requested that Canaris put the Abwehr under SD and SS control.sfn Canaris appeared to retreat and handled the situation diplomatically, but there was no immediate effect on the Abwehr for the time being.

Her covert intelligence-gathering meetings with an officer from Germany's military intelligence, the Abwehr, had not gone unnoticed either.

In late November 1941, under the ever watchful eye of the FBI, Popov received orders from the Abwehr, sending him to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Ms Jordan, while in the pay of the German intelligence organisation Abwehr, sketched details of the Crombie military munitions depot in Fife and mailed the details to a PO Box in Hamburg.

After the war Chapman remained friends with Baron Stephan von Gröning, his Abwehr handler (wartime alias Doctor Graumann), who had fallen on hard times.

Agents from the German intelligence services, Abwehr and Sicherheitsdienst (SD), were apprehended.

A rare Abwehr Enigma machine, designated G312, was stolen from the Bletchley Park museum on 1 April 2000.

At this time, the German Abwehr was active in Spain, particularly around the British naval base of Gibraltar, which its agents hoped to watch with cameras and radar to track Allied supply ships in the Western Mediterranean.

Bellegarde was later forced to work during the Second World War for the Russian section of the Abwehr (German military intelligence) in Berlin; there is evidence that he was the very effective British double agent known as "Outcast".

Even when good information existed, such as a November 1939 Abwehr assessment of Fighter Command strengths and capabilities by Abteilung V, it was ignored if it did not match conventional preconceptions.

He and his fictitious network were absorbed into the main double-cross system and he became so respected by Abwehr that they stopped landing agents in Britain after 1942.

However, the response from the Abwehr was lukewarm.

However, two weeks later, all were arrested by the FBI thanks to two Abwehr agents who betrayed the mission.

In the Abwehr Enigma, the reflector stepped during encryption in a manner similar to the other wheels.

Later agents were instructed to contact agents who, unknown to the Abwehr, were controlled by the British.

Radio messages were sent to the Abwehr requesting extraction by boat or submarine, and Chapman was set to work learning a cover story ready for the inevitable interrogations.

The Abwehr and SD sent agents over by parachute drop, submarine and travel via neutral countries.

The competition stemmed from Heydrich and Himmler's intention to absorb the Abwehr and Admiral Canaris' view of the SD as an amateur upstart.

The experiment had not appeared to be a success but MI5 had learned lessons about how Abwehr operated and how double agents might be useful.