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20 Aug 1940

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USSR	Reference: 3/PPDT/T43

DICK'S VISIT TO KENLEY AIR STATION (1940)

From:	LONDON
To:	MOSCOW
No:	915	20th Aug. 40

To JOHN [DZhON][i].

On 18th AUgust the SAUSAGE-DEALERS [KOLBASNIKI][ii] bombed KENLEY Aerodrome. I was there today. I could not get onto the aerodrome since all the roads are closed and guarded by soldiers. Soldiers and machine-gun nests are dispersed round the aerodrome in bushes and trenches [iii]. Fuel tanks are concealed in bushes. Near the aerodrome there are bombed-out houses. A squadron of HURRICANES patrols in formation above the aerodrome the whole time in flights of three aircraft. Passers-by have their [illegible] checked. There was no panic among the population during an alert.

No. 233

DICK [DIK][iv]

Comments:	[i]	JOHN: Unidentified MOSCOW addressee 6th July 1940 - 16th September 1940.
	[ii]	SAUSAGE-DEALERS: the Germans.
	[iii]	These security measures may have been connected with CHURCHILL's visit to KENLEY on 22nd August 1940 (W. S. CHURCHILL, The Second World War, Vol. II, p.584 in Cassell's edition).
	[iv]	DICK: Covername of unidentified LONDON signatory and addressee between 6th July 1940 and 11th October 1940.

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Source(s):
United States National Security Agency

Added By:
C. Peter Chen

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