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CHAPTER TWELVE

Before the Inspectorate of STM could provide reassurance about the fate of the Section, on the first days
of November this resumed its functions, setting up five listening stations around Padua as well as in the
following weeks on other parts of the front, together with a network of radio-goniometric stations .
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It also submitted daily reports to the Situation Office of the Supreme Command to communicate
the movement of enemy units together with attached hand-drawn maps of pinpointed stations (an
example is shown in picture 12.3) . The same information and the intercepted dispatches were,
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of course, regularly forwarded to the Cryptographic Unit .
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12.3 Example of daily detected radio relations among German and
Austro-Hungarian radiotelegraphic stations (ISCAG Archive)

64 The first listening stations was deployed in Altichiero, Vigodarzere, S. Antonino, Villa Tiziano e Villa Massa, followed by
those in Portomaggiore and Parma. The radio-goniometric stations were in Asolo, Portomaggiore and San Niccolò di Trebbia.
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65 The chart in picture 12.3 is taken from a page of the daily report of the 1 Radio-Goniometric Section on 7 November 1917,
ISCAG, Coll. 223.
66 Section U logs, November 1917, AUSSME, Series B1, 101D, Vol. 359d.

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