Friends of the Intelligence Corps Museum

We exist to promote the history and heritage of the Intelligence Corps, and to raise funds for the benefit of the Intelligence Corps Museum.

[Friends of the Intelligence Corps Museum @FICMuseum]

We support this incredible museum, follow us, follow them, as together we launch into an exciting future to showcase our history. RT us! @mi_intel @Int_Corps @spyhistory @arcreuk @MickWSmith @nickfshort @guywalters @TrooperAbs @IainStanden @nico_lala @I_W_M @trevorwbarnes

[Military Intelligence Museum @mi_intel]

DIGITAL RELAUNCH 🔍
On 17 May, to coincide with #museums reopening, we are having a #digital relaunch! We can't wait for you to see what we've been up to - the website has had a complete redesign and includes lots of new content.
Here is a preview. We hope you enjoy it!

[Friends of the Intelligence Corps Museum @FICMuseum]

There is a fabulous collection of special artefacts and papers @mi_intel that we support…

[Dr Helen Fry | WWII Historian @DrHelenFry]

Do you have any WWII memorabilia and treasures that are special to you?

[Friends of the Intelligence Corps Museum @FICMuseum]

@RandyLeeKling1 @DrHelenFry @Int_Corps @mi_intel @bentley_priory @spyhistory Not sure that past issues of Eye Spy are held anywhere now

[Friends of the Intelligence Corps Museum @FICMuseum]

They were @Int_Corps and their story is in our museum too!

Do watch the video link and inside the secret tunnels with our trustee @DrHelenFry

[Robin Lustig @robinlustig]

During WW2, both my parents worked in a secret British military intelligence unit gathering intel from German PoWs in bugged prison cells. Eighty years later, their work is finally being acknowledged. https://t.co/2tPPQgJwBJ

[Robin Lustig @robinlustig]

During WW2, both my parents worked in a secret British military intelligence unit gathering intel from German PoWs in bugged prison cells. Eighty years later, their work is finally being acknowledged. https://t.co/2tPPQgJwBJ

[Military Intelligence Museum @mi_intel]

It was indeed the Kiev-class aircraft carrier!

See you next week for another #FRidentification challenge

[Military Intelligence Museum @mi_intel]

That's right, it was the American M109 self-propelled howitzer. First used in the Vietnam War, it is still being used in Ukraine today!

[Military Intelligence Museum @mi_intel]

Today’s #ObjectOfTheWeek is a ZPU 1 anti-aircraft gun - old technology with no electronics, integrated targeting systems, or signature emissions so has to be seen to be countered. By knowing what an enemy is using, you can decide how to effectively counter their weapons.

[Dr Helen Fry | WWII Historian @DrHelenFry]

During WWII, Yvonne Jones served in the WAAF and was assigned to RAF Chicksands in the summer of 1942, where she worked as a radio operator for the Y-Service.

She responsible for intercepting enemy communications and locating transmitters. #WWII

[Military Intelligence Museum @mi_intel]

This armband was worn during Operation Agila in Southern Rhodesia, 1980. A Monitoring Force oversaw elections ending white rule and the Bush War. The #IntCorps ensured accurate reports from outlying stations – something in short supply in such a large and fragmented country.

[Dan P @DanielJPhelan_]

The Governor,
Malta.

To honour her brave people I award the George Cross to the Island Fortress of Malta to bear witness to a heroism and devotion that will long be famous in history.

George R.I.
April 15th, 1942. 

📍Fort St Elmo - National War Museum. Valletta, Malta 🇲🇹

[Ministry of Defence 🇬🇧 @DefenceHQ]

To celebrate 120 years of close ties between the UK and France, French Army Chief General Pierre Schill was given the honour of reviewing Officer Cadets at the Sovereign’s Parade. 🇬🇧 🇫🇷

@RMASandhurst @FranceintheUK

[Dr Kate Vigurs FRhistS @historical_kate]

Whats unusual about this bicycle - and why? #resistance #oranje #Netherlands

[Robert Lyman 🇺🇦 @robert_lyman]

‘The Staff Officers’ Lament’

If only the enemy would play the game!

(In the papers of the late Donald Eastern, given to me by his family)

[BARNABY JAMESON @Silk_Scribbler]

Cambridge, late 1940s: after the war my grandfather, Geoffrey Curran, hung up his RAF wings to study ceramics. In the late 1940s he set up the Fen Pottery in Godmanchester, near Cambridge.

The individual officiating at the opening ceremony (sadly no surviving pictures) was the Emperor Haile Selassie, in England on an informal visit. He befriended my grandfather after his restoration to the throne in 1941 and the two men stayed in touch. My mother, then small, thought it quite normal for my grandfather’s wartime friend to arrive in a black Bentley flying the standard of the Ethiopian Emperor, the Lion of Judah.

Again, she thought it normal that the lithe, elegant passenger should emerge from the Bentley wearing a dark blue cloak clasped with an imperial ruby.

[Robert Lyman 🇺🇦 @robert_lyman]

The family of the late Lt Col Donald Eastern have given me his papers. (Donald was OC A Company 4 Royal West Kents at #Kohima: he cradled LCpl John Harman VC as he died).

What a treasure trove!

This poem, pasted onto Japanese notepaper, was written at war’s end near Rangoon.

[Friends of the Intelligence Corps Museum @FICMuseum]

@authordlewis Enjoy

[BFBS Forces News @ForcesNews]

A @RoyalAirForce pilot who was shot down, captured and forced to walk hundreds of miles has revealed what he wanted to do next – carry on flying

Derrick Grubb, who has just celebrated his 100th birthday, served for 34 years 🎉

Read more 👇
https://t.co/DV0JuGCQdh

[Robert Lyman 🇺🇦 @robert_lyman]

Don’t forget to book to attend next weekend’s extravaganza at the @NAM_London. The line up to talk about aspects of #Kohima 44 is immense!

[Damien Lewis @authordlewis]

Stepping out for the world premiere of the Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare - in New York, the buzz is incredible. ‘Guy Ritchie’s best movie yet’ is the verdict.’ 👍👍👍

[Spybrary @spybrary]

I have been fascinated with Kim Philby and the Cambridge spies for longer than I care to remember. So to interview his granddaughter, the author and journalist Charlotte Philby on a panel at the @EalingBookFest is absolutely mind blowing. Stil pinching myself. More pics etc coming soon #KimPhilby #coldwar