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THE SECRET WAR ON THE ITALIAN FRONT IN WWI (1915 – 1918)

SECOND PART Communication Intelligence and Security 107

CHAPTER 6 Telecommunications and Intelligence 109
6.1 Military Communication Media 109
6.2 The Attack on Telecommunications 115
6.3 Telecommunications Security 120
6.4 Basics Cryptology 122
6.5 Military Cryptology 125
6.6 Steganography: a Spy’s Instrument 128

CHAPTER 7 Radio and Cryptographic Deployment 131
7.1 For a Short History of Italian Field Radio Communications Before 1914 131
7.2 The Army Radio at Italy’s Entring the War 136
7.3 Spy Hunt 142
7.4 “Radio Intelligence” in the Italian and Austrian Armies 144
7.5 Mobilization Codes and Ciphers 146
7.6 The Code Suk 151

CHAPTER 8 The beginning of the COMINT battle 155
8.1 The Italian Cryptography in Mid-1915 155
8.2 Austro-Hungarian Early Successes 160
8.3 A Leading Figure Arises: Luigi Sacco 164
8.4 Effects of Sacco’s Mission in France 168
8.5 Italian Radio over the First Six Months of War 171
8.6 Radio Intelligence snd Security of Italian Communications in 1915 174
8.7 A New Branch of Intelligence: Telephone Eavesdropping 176

CHAPTER 9 The hard transition 181
9.1 First Signs of Electronic Warfare 181
9.2 An Increase in Awareness 186
9.3 The Great Battles of 1916 190
First-Hand Documents: Luigi Sacco’s Notebook, 1916 193

CHAPTER 10 The Cryptographic Unit 205
10.1 Via Nazionale 75, Rome 205
10.2 Italian Analysts’ Successes 207
10.3 A Disclosure of Austrian-Hungarian Codes and Ciphers 212
10.4 About the Safety of Italian Radio Communications 219
10.5 Radio Intelligence in Late 1916 222
10.6 The Development of Telephone Eavesdropping 226

CHAPTER 11 Relevant changes 231
11.1 The Evolution of the Cryptographic Unit in 1917 231
11.2 Contributions to the Entente Intelligence 233
11.3 Telecommunications Security Issues 239
11.4 New Ciphers for the Italian Army 245
11.5 Air Force and Geo-Telegraphy Codes 255
11.6 The Fight for Telephone Interception 259

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