MI19 was a section of the BritishDirectorate of Military Intelligence, part of theWar Office. During theSecond World War it was responsible for obtaining information from enemyprisoners of war.[1]
It was originally created in December 1940 as MI9a, a sub-section ofMI9. A year later, in December 1941, it became an independent organisation, though still closely associated with its parent.[2]
MI19 hadCombined Services Detailed Interrogation Centres (CSDIC) atBeaconsfield, Wilton Park, and Latimer, as well as a number overseas.[3] Beginning in 1940, MI19 recorded conversations between German officers held comfortably atTrent Park inNorth London; many important secrets were learned from that effort. MI19 operated an interrogation centre inKensington Palace Gardens, London, commanded by Lt. Col.Alexander ScotlandOBE, known as the "London Cage". It was a subject of persistent reports of torture by the prisoners confined there, which included war crimes suspects from theSS andGestapo held in the facility after the war.[4]
The BBC reported that MI-19 staff were sent to theChannel Islands in 1945 to look for evidence of collaboration duringthe German occupation. The intent may have been to silence speculation.[5]
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