Allied Intelligence Bureau

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The Allied Intelligence Bureau ( AIB ) was an intelligence service of the Allied Forces in the Southwest Pacific and the American General Douglas MacArthur from July 6, 1942 to 1945 .

Its official mission was both to gather information and, where practicable, to sabotage the enemy's actions, undermine morale and support resistance groups in the occupied territories. The work was hindered from the start by power struggles and rivalries within the Allies. The AIB was founded in order to coordinate espionage activities that had taken place since the early summer of 1942, and in October 1942 it was fully operational. The AIB gathered military information to both plan bomber attacks and determine the position of Japanese units.

In April 1943 the organization was reorganized and divided into five sub-organizations. The Philippines Regional Section was responsible for the Philippines. In a short time it achieved a quasi-autonomous status as a purely American organization and was organizationally completely decoupled from the AIB until the end of the Second World War .

The administration was in Brisbane . In 1945, the service had 1,659 employees from Great Britain and Australia, 1,100 locals in Asia, 268 Dutch and 19 Americans.

literature

  • Gavin Long: Appendix 4: Allied Intelligence Bureau . In: Australia in the War of 1939-1945 (PDF) (= Series 1 - Army), 1st. Edition, Volume VII - The Final Campaigns, Australian War Memorial, Canberra, Australia 1963, pp. 617-622, OCLC 671415046 .

Individual evidence

  1. Peter Dunn: ALLIED INTELLIGENCE BUREAU IN AUSTRALIA DURING WW2. Peter Dunn, August 2, 2016, accessed April 23, 2018 .
  2. https://www.ozatwar.com/sigint/aib.htm