British air force intelligence services (1939–1964)
RAF Intelligence Branch
Agency overview
Formed
1939
Dissolved
1964 (as an independent agency)
Superseding agency
Defence Intelligence
Jurisdiction
Government of the United Kingdom
Intelligence services in the Royal Air Force are delivered by Officers of the Royal Air Force Intelligence Branch and Airmen from the Intelligence Analyst Trade and Intelligence Analyst (Voice) Trade. The specialisation has around 1,200 personnel of all ranks posted to operational air stations, HQs and other establishments of the British Armed Forces, both in the United Kingdom and overseas.
Personnel have been employed in intelligence duties since the formation of the RAF in 1918. But the first dedicated RAFIntelligence Branch was established in...
8 km) south of Lincoln, Lincolnshire, in England. The station is the RAF'sIntelligence Surveillance Target Acquisition and Reconnaissance (ISTAR) hub and...
The Defence Intelligence Fusion Centre (DIFC) is based at RAF Wyton in Cambridgeshire. Largely created from the staff of the National Imagery Exploitation...
Geospatial Intelligence (NCGI) is based at RAF Wyton in Cambridgeshire (since moving from RAF Brampton in 2013) and provides specialist imagery intelligence to...
specialised in photographic intelligence, and it was once the home of the RAFIntelligence Branch. During the Second World War, RAF Medmenham was the main...
the JIC became the senior intelligence assessment body for the United Kingdom government. During the War, the RAFIntelligence Branch was established, although...
the huge amounts of aerial reconnaissance intelligence data soon became imperative. Beginning in 1941, RAF Medmenham was the main interpretation centre...
The Royal Air Force (RAF) is the air and space force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies. It was formed towards...
Hill (RAF Menwith Hill) is a Royal Air Force station near Harrogate, North Yorkshire, England, which provides communications and intelligence support...
Luftwaffe (German air force) intended to destroy the British Royal Air Force (RAF). The operation came during the Battle of Britain after Britain rejected...
Organization (NATO) Intelligence Fusion Centre (IFC), and is garrisoned by the United States Air Force 423rd Air Base Group (423 ABG), located at RAF Alconbury...
successor agencies.[citation needed] RAFIntelligence JARIC RAF Medmenham No. 1 Photographic Reconnaissance Unit RAF National Collection of Aerial Photography...
signature intelligence, moved from Feltham in Middlesex to RAF Wyton in 2013. 42 Engineer Regiment relocated from Denison Barracks in Hermitage to RAF Wyton...
Air Intelligence branch. Under pressure from American journalists and broadcasters to prove that the RAF's claims were genuine, RAFintelligence compared...
house the RAFIntelligence School, although the 'official' line was that it was a convalescence hospital. The Operational Record (Form 540) of RAF Station...
author and inventor Sir Christopher Lee – British actor, served in RAFIntelligence during World War II Peter Francis Middleton – grandfather of Catherine...
requisitioned by the Royal Navy. After nine months the RAF took over operations and established a signal intelligence collection (SIGINT) unit there, known as a Y...
Continental staff system: A1 – PANDA (Personnel and administration) A2 – RAFIntelligence A3 – Air operations (both plans and current operations) A4 – Air logistics...
Organisation, part of the Joint Forces Intelligence Group of Joint Forces Command. Other units include the RAF Aerial Erector School, No. 54 Signals Unit...
Royal Air Force Croughton or more simply RAF Croughton is a Royal Air Force station which is currently a United States Air Force communications station...
The RAF Police also provides the RAF's Counter-intelligence & Protective Security (CI & PS) role, similar to that carried out by the Intelligence Corps...
when it was taken over by the RAF. In September 1942, the house was acquired by the Air Ministry. The RAFIntelligence School, formerly housed in a number...