2008/03/11 by Caitlyn Jenner · 1 citation
Social Sciences · #Intelligence, Security, War Strategy #Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics #World Wars: History, Literature, and Impact #Alliance #Agency (philosophy) #World War II #Spanish Civil War #Law #Political science #Middle East #Economic history #Management #History #Sociology #Social science
paper · doi:10.1111/j.1467-7709.2008.00688.x
openalex publication_date 2008/03/11 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/30
The Fellers affair seared the minds of the handful of Anglo-American commanders with sufficient Ultra clearance to know the truth behind the cover-up.1 So significant were the consequences, Colonel Fellers's compromised mission remained a painfully vivid memory thirty years after the Second World War.2 In 1940, as a means of enhancing a desperate démarche to expedite the United States undertaking war against the Axis, Great Britain initiated a unique Anglo-American intelligence liaison. In the Middle East, Colonel Bonner Fellers, the U.S. military attaché in Cairo, “was given full access to everything in the 8th Army and he sent back detailed reports on it all to Washington.” Unbeknown to Fellers, Axis intelligence read the reports: within eight hours the most secret data on British “strengths, positions, losses, reinforcements, supply, situation, plans, morale etc” were under the gimlet eyes of Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, and Field Marshal Erwin Rommel.3 The Fellers affair reveals intelligence's decisive agency on the history of the Middle East and the UK-U.S. alliance.