British Naval Intelligence Department
The Naval Intelligence Department ( NID , British Navy Intelligence Service) was a British secret service of the Royal Navy .
The agency was founded in 1882 under the name Foreign Intelligence Committee and renamed the Naval Intelligence Department in 1887 . The first director of the agency was Captain William Henry Hall.
During the First World War , the NID was responsible for the successful decryption of secret messages from the German Reich. The Room 40 subdivision managed to decipher the Zimmermann telegram , which helped the United States join the war .
Ian Fleming , the creator of the fictional secret agent James Bond , worked there during the Second World War .
In 1962, the Naval Intelligence Department was at the center of the espionage scandal surrounding government official John Vassall, who had betrayed internal matters to the Soviet Union .
In 1965 the agency was dissolved and the staff was transferred to the United Kingdom Department of Defense, established in 1964 .
Individual evidence
- ^ The Spy Who Rocked a World of Privilege. The Independent , December 8, 1996, accessed May 19, 2015 .
