British Security Coordination

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British Security Coordination was a covert British intelligence organization based in New York during World War II that coordinated espionage, propaganda, and security operations across the Western Hemisphere.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf British intelligence agency
covert intelligence organization
activeDuring World War II
alsoKnownAs BSC
British Security Co-ordination
basedIn New York City
continent North America
coordinatedWith Federal Bureau of Investigation
MI6
Office of Strategic Services
Special Operations Executive
United States intelligence agencies
country United Kingdom
dissolved after the end of World War II
employer William Stephenson
endTime 1945
fieldOfWork counterintelligence
foreign intelligence
psychological warfare
headquartersLocation New York City
locatedIn Rockefeller Center
mainActivity counter-espionage
espionage
political influence operations
propaganda
security coordination
notableCommander William Stephenson
notableWork influence on creation of the Office of Strategic Services
intelligence operations against German agents in the Americas
propaganda campaigns in U.S. media
objective build American support for entering World War II
coordinate intelligence with U.S. agencies
counter Axis influence in the Americas
protect British and Allied shipping
operatedIn United States
Western Hemisphere
operationalScope Western Hemisphere
parentOrganization British government
British intelligence community
partOf British war effort
startTime 1940
usedMethod black propaganda
cable censorship
codebreaking support
covert influence
press manipulation
white propaganda
wireless interception


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