British Security Coordination

The British Security Coordination (BSC ) was a disguised as a British news agency organization that was set up by the British Secret Intelligence Service ( MI6 ) from May 1940 in New York. The aim of the organization was the intelligence, the support of British interests, the protection of convoys across the Atlantic from enemy sabotage and the proliferation of messages that should move America into the war.

Its establishment was initiated by Winston Churchill shortly after his appointment as Prime Minister in 1940, the office was run by the Canadian industrialist William Samuel Stephenson. The office in Rockefeller Center was registered as a foreign organization in America and was officially listed as a British passport control. Despite the official intergovernmental cooperation, the then director of the FBI, Edgar Hoover, and the State Department about the British spy organization was concerned. Although Stephenson and Hoover never met in person, they cooperated in various actions against espionage activities or propaganda by the Germans in the United States.

BSC worked particularly with William Joseph Donovan and his newly founded COI.

Contrary to the original agreements promoted the British and Americans for their organization. These employees received BSC British identity papers, which began with the digits 4 and 8.

The British novelist William Boyd wrote in an article for the newspaper "The Guardian ", which is officially unknown in the U.S., the total number of BSC agents, but he estimates at several hundred, and the number 3000 was mentioned.

Churchill had recognized that Britain could win the war as an ally with America. The Americans showed before the attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941 To fight little request: 80 percent of the population was strongly opposed; part was formed in the America First Committee. The British agent of the BSC should change that and worked very effectively. One of her greatest achievements was to bring a fake German map in circulation, were shown on the plans for a conquered South America. President Franklin D. Roosevelt mentioned the fake card even in his address to the nation in October 1941.

Known members of the BSC were

J. Edgar Hoover Noël Coward
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