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Target Intelligence Comittee
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TICOM, short for Target Intelligence Committee, was a British
(later: Anglo-American) project to find and seize German technology, ranging
from communication equipment to advanced cryptographic devices and methods for
interception and cryptanalysis.
TICOM was formed during WWII, and successfully confiscated and moved
intelligence assets and people to the United States after the war [1].
It ran alongside other Allied efforts to extract German scientific and
technological assets after the war, including Operation Paperclip,
Operation Alsos and operation Surgeon [1].
This page is currently used as a placeholder for TICOM documents
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The main target of the TICOM was to seek out and capture Germany's
cryptologic secrets. The TICOM teams consisted of cryptologic
experts, mainly from the British codebreaking centre Bletchley Park,
which entered Germany with the front-line troops in order to capture
documents, technology and personnel of the various German signals
intelligence organisations, before these secrets were destroyed,
looted or captured by the Soviets. The following six teams were formed:
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| 1 | Capture T-52 (Geheimschreiber) cipher machines, known by the allies as 'Fish'. | ➤ Final report
➤ Photographs |
| 2 | Assist Team 1 with transporting Field Marshal Kesselring's communications train to Britain. This was known as the Jellyfish Convoy. | ➤ Final report |
| 3 | Investigate the German Signals Intelligence Unit Pers Z S, which had been found completely intact. | ➤ Final report |
| 4 | Detailed investigation of places in southern Germany that Team 1 had passed over quickly. | ➤ Final report |
| 5 | Recover valuable items that had been dumped into lake Schliersee (near München) at the end of the war. This task was prompted by the discovery of a watertight box with part of the archives of OKW/Chi on the bed of the lake. | ➤ Final report |
| 6 | Capture and exploit material from the German Naval Intelligence Center and the German SIGINT headquarters. | ➤ Final report |
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TICOM documents on this website
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I-2
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Interrogation of Dr. Huettenhain and Dr. Fricke at Flensburg 21 May 1945
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1945-06-10
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I-20
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Interrogation of Sonderfuehrer Dr. Fricke of OKW/Chi (formerly of OKH/Chi)
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1945-06-28
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I-21
| Preliminary Interrogation of Oberst Kettler, R.R.Dr. Huettenhain, Sdf.Dr. Fricke (OKW/Chi) and Oblt. Schubert (OKH/Chi)
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1945-06-15
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I-22
| Interrogation of German Cryptographers of the 'Pers Zs' Department of the Auswärtiges Amt
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1945-07-02
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I-25
| Interrogation of Five Members of the RLM/Forschungsamt ("Goering's FA") at Schloss Gluecksburg, near Flensburg on 15th and 21st June 1945
• Paetzel, Fingerhut,Oden, Klautsche → see also I-54
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1945-07-05
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I-31
| Detailed interrogation Dr. Huettenhain, formerly head of Research Section of OKW/Chi 18-21 June 1945
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1945-07-08
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I-36
| Translation of paper written by Reg. Rat. Dr. Huettenhain and Sonderfuehrer Dr. Fricke on the development of OKW/Chi, Sections A.III and B.V.
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1945-07-13
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I-37
| Translation of paper written by Reg. Rat Dr. Huettenhain of OKW/Chi on Special Apparatus used as Aids to Cryptanalysis
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1945-07-14
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I-38
| Report on Interrogation of Lt. Frowein of OKM/4 SKL III, on his work on the Security of the German Naval Four-Wheel Enigma
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1945-07-14
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I-39
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Organisation of OKW/Chi
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1945-07-16
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I-43
| Report writen by Vierling on (a) Synchronising device for teleprinters (Gleichlauf), (b) Artificial Speech Apparatus, (c) "Three-fold wobbling" process, (d) Synchronising installation for producing the "wobble-frequencies", (e) Voice-Scramling Apparatus (small Baustein)
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1945-07-20
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I-44
| Memorandum on Speech Encipherment Apparatus by ORR Huettenhain and SDF. Dr. Fricke
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1945-08-01
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I-46
| Preliminary Report on Interrogation of Wachtmeister Dr. Otto Buggisch (of OKH/Gen. d. NA) and Dr. Werner Liebknecht (employed by OKH and OKW as tester of cryptographic equipment). 23 June 1945
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1945-07-22
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I-48
| Report on Special Interrogation of Drs. Huettenhain and Fricke, Obert Mettig and Lt. Morgenroth carried out on 29 July, 1945
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1945-07-30
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I-54
| Second Interrogation of Five Members of the RLM/Forschungsamt → see also I-25
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1945-08-02
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| I-56 | On German diplomatic ciphers | TICOM | 1945-07-31 |
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I-57
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Encipering Devices worked on by Dr. LIEBKNECHT at Wa Pruef 7
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1945-08-02
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I-58
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Interrogation of Dr. Otto Buggisch of OKW/Chi
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1945-08-08
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I-64
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Answers by WM. Buggisch of OKH-Chi to Questions Sent by TICOM
| ASA
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1945-08-08
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I-66
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Paper by Dr. Otto Buggisch of OKH/In.7/VI and OKW/Chi on Typex
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1945-08-12
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I-67
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Paper by Dr. Otto Buggisch of OKH/In. 7/VI and OKW/Chi on Cryptanalytic Machines
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1945-08-13
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I-78
| Report on information obtained from PW CS/2318 Obstlt Mettig OKW/WFsT/Ag MNV/Chi captured at Rheims 15 May 1945
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I-82
| P.O.W. Interrogation Report Dr. Werner Liebknecht of Wa. Pruef. 7 of the Heereswaffenamt
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1945-09-02
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I-84
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Further interrogation of R.R. Dr. Huettenhain nd Sdf. Dr. Fricke of OKW/Chi
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1945-09-04
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I-92
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Final Interrogation of Wachtmeister Otto Buggisch (OKH/In 7/VI and OKW/Chi)
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1945-09-11
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I-104
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Report on Berlin Targets by Major Heller
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1945-06
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I-113
| Interrogation of Major Dr. Rudolf Henze, Head of Grupper IV (Cryptanalysis). General der nachrichtenaufklaerung
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1945-09-18
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I-118
| Joint Reports by Reg. Rat. Dr. Huettenhain and Sdf. Dr. Fricke, written at CSDIC on or about 28th August, 1945.
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1945-09-24
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I-120
| Translation of Homework by Obltn. W. Werther, Company Commander of 7/LN Rgt. 353, written on 12th August 1945 at A.D. I. (K)
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1945-10-03
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I-128
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Deciphering Achievements of In 7/VI and AKW/Chi
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1945-10-04
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I-137
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Final report written by Wachmeister Otto Buggisch of OKH/Chi and OKW/Chi
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1945-10-08
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I-160
| Homework by Sonderführer Kuehn of Gen.d.NA. on General Organization and Work of French Referat
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1945-11-03
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I-175
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Report by Alfred Pokorn of OKH/Chi on M-209
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1945-12-14
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I-176
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Homework by Wachmeister Dr. Otto Buggisch of OKH/Chi and OKW/Chi
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1945-12-17
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I-181
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Homework by Dr. Werner Weber of OKW/Chi
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1946-01-05
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I-199
| Report on Interrogation of Oberregierungsrat Nikolai Rohen, Head of Anglo-American Section of OKW/Chi
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1946-10-22
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I-200
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Interrogation of Min. Rat. Wilhelm Fenner of OKW/Chi
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1946-11-22
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I-202
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Interrogation of Min. Rat. Viktor Wendland of OKW/Chi
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1946-11-26
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I-203
| Interrogation of Herbert Mariniok and Herbert Korn, former members of the Reichspost and OKW/Chi
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1947-04-16
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I-204
| Preliminary Interrogation Report of Former Regierungsrat Johannes Marquart of OKH/Gen d NA
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1947-05-22
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I-205
| Detailed Interrogation Report of Former Regierungsrat Johannes Anton Marquart of OKH/Gen d. NA.
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1947-06-20
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I-206
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Extracts from homework written by Min. Rat. Wilhelm Fenner of OKW/Chi
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1947-08-07
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I-211
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Preliminary Interrogation of Dr. Hans Peter Luzius of OKH/In. 7
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1949-05-19
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I-213
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Report on Interrogation of Alfred Muche (Allied speech privacy systems)
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1950-01-23
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DF-series
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DF-174A
| Four papers by Fritz Menzer
➤ Enigma ➤ SG-39 ➤ SG-39 period ➤ Lückenfüllerwalze
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1949-12
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DF-176
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Answers written by Professor Doctor Wolfgang Franz to Questions of ASA Europe
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1949-09
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DF-196
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Report on Russian Decryption in the Former German Army
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AFSA-14
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1950-05
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DF-210
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Listing of the TICOM DF Series INDEX
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AFSA-14
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DF-217
| The Russian Cipher Device K-37
➤ K-37
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AFSA-14
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1950-09
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DF-229
| Three Reports on the Work of OKW/Chi
• Chiffrierabteilung OKW
• Memorandum on the Secret Diplomacy of 1944/1945
• France and the World 1944/1945)
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AFSA-14
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1945-08-10
1945-11-10
1945-08
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DF-240
| Characteristics, Analysis and Security of Cryptographic Systems
• Caesar, Playfair, Enigma, T-52, Japan, Hagelin, Russian, British
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AFSA-14
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1951-04
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DF-241
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The "Forschungsamt"
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AFSA-14
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1951-07
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M-series
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M-3
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'Delta' Machine (specially wired Army Enigma)
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TICOM
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1945-07-03
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M-5
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Demonstration of the Kesselring "Fish Train"
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TICOM
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1945-07-08
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