Allied Signal Intelligence Units and other secret units in Australia during WW2

ALLIED SIGNAL INTELLIGENCE UNITS AND OTHER SECRET UNITS
IN AUSTRALIA DURING WW2

visits since 14 November 2000

"Not only do you not exist, you never will have existed. You will remain for always unknown and unacknowledged. There will be no awards, no glory. There will be no medals for this unit."

As told to a batch of recruits for the Australian Special Wireless Group, AIF.

"Sigint" is a code name for signal intelligence. Sigint operations were so secret that they were given their own special classification of "Ultra Secret". The word "Ultra" was used as a code name for intelligence derived from interception and decoding of Japanese military and naval messages.

Command Structure for Allied Intelligence Organisations
in SWPA, May 1943

UNITS

1 Australian Discrimination Unit	24 Australian Signals (at Indooroopilly)	41 Heavy Wireless Station Hay, NSW
51 Wireless Section Australian Special Wireless Group	52 Wireless Section Australian Special Wireless Group	126 Signal Radio Intelligence Company
978th Signal Services Company Filipino signal unit dropped behind Japanese lines by submarine	5217th Reconnaissance Battalion (Prov.) The "Mission Men" dropped behind Japanese lines by submarine	5218th Reconnaissance Company (Prov.) This unit rained the 978th Signal Services Company in jungle combat
Air Force Directorate of Intelligence	Allied Geographic Section (AGS)	Allied Intelligence Bureau
Allied Translation & Interpretation Section (ATIS)	Area Combined Headquarters Townsville	Australian Air Investigation Intelligence Their role was to capture Australians spying for Japan and Germany
Australian Guerrillas 1942	Australian Army Cipher Production Unit	Australian Special Wireless Group
Central Bureau	Central War Room	Coast Watchers
Combined Defence Headquarters Townsville	Combined Operational Intelligence Centre (COIC)	Counter Intelligence Corps, G-2 Section, HQ U.S.A.A.F.E.
Directorate of Naval Communications	Far Eastern Liaison Office (FELO) Section D of AIB Military Propaganda Section	Fraser Commando School Training school for "Z" Special Unit Commandos
FRUMEL	Intelligence Section, Home Forces	Inter Allied Services Department (IASD or ISD) cover name for SOA
Intercept Station - HMAS Coonawarra (Darwin)	Intercept Station - HMAS Harman (Canberra)	Intercept Station - HMAS Ringwood (Melbourne?)
HF/DF Station Garbutt Woolcock Street	"M" Special Operations	No. 1 Special Wireless Group Canadian Military Unit
No. 4 Ship Signal Section, Royal Signals, British Army	No. 4 Australian Special Wireless Section	No. 1 Wireless Unit
No. 11 Australian Cypher Section	Netherlands East Indies Regional Section	Netherlands Forces Intelligence Section, Division III (NFIS III)
Observations Centres for Radio Security Organisation:- - Brisbane - Sydney - Melbourne - Adelaide - Perth	Philippine Regional Section	Radio Security Organisation
Royal Netherlands Navy Wireless Telegraphy Station, Batchelor, NT	Royal Netherlands Navy Wireless Telegraphy Station, Craigieburn, VIC	Secret Intelligence Australia (SIA)
Section 22	Section RO4, Directorate of Signals	Services Reconnaissance Department (SRD) cover name for SOA
Special Intelligence Bureau Royal Australian Navy (RAN)	Special Operations Australia (SOA)	Special Operations Executive (SOE) British Secret Organisation
Spyron The Warehouse section of Philippine Regional Section	US Army Signal Corps - Capalaba Radio Communications site (near Brisbane, QLD)	US Army Signal Corps - Redland Bay Golf Course Radio Communications site (near Brisbane, QLD)
U.S. Navy Intercept and HFDF Station, Darwin	U.S. Navy Intercept and HFDF Station, Townsville (Was this located on top of Mount Stuart?)	U.S. Navy Intercept and HFDF Station, Cooktown
U.S. Navy Intercept and HFDF Station, Exmouth Gulf	Wireless Intercept Station, Royal Netherlands Navy, Batchelor, NT	XE-craft midget submarine trials of the 14th Submarine Flotilla at Mon Repos, near Bundaberg, QLD
"Z" Special Unit

EQUIPMENT

AWA Receivers AWA Wireless Set 133 (WS133)	"Coral" Used by Japanese Naval Attaches	Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC)
HRO's	Hollereith machines at Victoria Barracks	IBM "Computers" at Ascot in Brisbane in 1942!!! How the first IBM's in Australia helped crack the Japanese Codes
"Jade" Used by Japanese Imperial Navy	Kingsley AR7 Intercept Radios	"Purple" Used by Japanese diplomats
SIGABA or ECM Mark II	"Sigsaly" A high security voice communications system	"Sigtot" A secure teletype conferencing system
Typex machines Can anyone help me with details please?	US Army Signal Corps BC-224 HF Receiver	US Army Signal Corps Field Telephone C-434/GRC
Wireless Set No. FS6 (AWA Field Set 6)	"X" machines Can anyone help me with details please?