After German reunification in 1990, it was confirmed that the RAF had received financial and logistic support from the Stasi, the security and intelligence organization of East Germany, which had given several members shelter and new identities.

RAF Menwith Hill, a large Echelon ( signals intelligence ) | ECHELON site in the United Kingdom, and part of the UK-USA Security Agreement

* Imagery intelligence activities conducted by the RAF Photographic Reconnaissance Unit ( now JARIC, The National Imagery Exploitation Centre ).

The RAF monitored these programmes hoping ( in vain ) to gather intelligence from newsreels.

During debriefing, his intelligence officer told him that two RAF night fighters had reported the same thing, and it was later reported in British newspapers.

* 17 August 1944, RAF fighters attacked the soldiers of the British 7th Armoured Division, resulting in 20 casualties, including the intelligence officer of 8th Hussars who was badly injured.

It is believed to be one of the largest ECHELON ground stations and appears to be physically and operationally similar to the American signals intelligence facilities at Buckley Air Force Base, Colorado and RAF Menwith Hill, United Kingdom.

Low flying RAF squadrons were able to produce detailed intelligence on the location of road blocks, sabotaged bridges, railways and pipelines.

Zaslany also worked as interpreter for Patrick Domville, head of RAF Intelligence in Palestine ( who was described by Haganah leader Dov Hos as the " best Zionist informer on the English "), until the latter was posted to Iraq in 1938, and through him became acquainted with many of the British intelligence officers.

Poor eyesight led him to desk jobs in the RAF intelligence branch where he rose — as a " Wingless Wonder ", as officers who were not qualified to wear pilot's wings were called — to the rank of Flight Lieutenant ; he was then appointed Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for Air, Sir Archibald Sinclair.

RAF Menwith Hill is a Royal Air Force station near Harrogate, North Yorkshire, England which provides communications and intelligence support services to the United Kingdom and the United States of America.

General Crüwell remained a prisoner and on March 22, 1943, was intentionally placed with another POW, General von Thoma, who during the meeting disclosed intelligence regarding the V-2 rocket and used for RAF Operation Hydra bombing raids on Peenemünde, i. e. ; surprise that London was not yet in ruins from German rockets being tested at a ' special ground near Kummersdorf ' he had visited.

RAF Menwith Hill near Harrogate, England, which provides communications and intelligence support services to both the United Kingdom and the United States

He was trained as an RAF photographer and stationed in West Africa, later serving in Britain as an intelligence officer, an experience he translated into fiction with A Season in Sinji.

The helicopter had been carrying 25 British intelligence experts from MI5, the Royal Ulster Constabulary and the British Army, from RAF Aldergrove ( outside Belfast, Northern Ireland ) to attend a conference at Fort George ( near Inverness ) in Scotland.

After nine months the RAF took over operations and established a signal intelligence collection unit there, known as a Y Station.

In World War II he served as an intelligence officer in the RAF and helped John Pudney edit Air Force Poetry.

On 25 November 1942 The 107th Observation Squadron, 67th Observation Group, was transferred from RAF Membury to Aldermaston with A-20s, L-4s and Spitfires so that their reconnaissance photographs and visual intelligence would be quickly available to IX Troop Carrier Command.

In 1943 he served with the RAF as an intelligence officer ( some of the time at Bletchley Park ), but returned to the BBC a year later.

The RAF Intelligence Branch dates back to 1939 following the outbreak of World War II, however personnel have been employed in intelligence duties since the formation of the RAF in 1918.

In the 1950s the Photographic Interpretation ( PI ) Branch was formed for commissioned officers to be employed at the reconnaissance intelligence centres attached to aircraft units, and also to work at the Joint Air Reconnaissance Intelligence Centre ( JARIC ) at RAF Brampton.

Following a re-organisation in 2007, the structrure was changed again and the Defence School of Intelligence ( DSI ) was set up with Air Intelligence Wing as a sub-organisation as the Phase 2 training unit ( professional specialist training ) for all RAF Intelligence Analyst Airmen, RAF Intelligence Officers, plus as a Phase 3 training unit ( Continuation Specialist Training ) for RAF Intelligence Analyst NCOs and Royal Navy & British Army Officers employed in air intelligence duties.

* 1980 – Witnesses report the first of several sightings of unexplained lights near RAF Woodbridge, in Rendlesham Forest, Suffolk, England, an incident called " Britain's Roswell ".

The figures include Royal Navy war dead of 32, 287 The Merchant Navy war dead of 14, 661 were listed separately Figures for total RAF are included in the totals of the War Office report

A crash at RAF Boscombe Down on 26 September 1994 appeared closely linked to " black " missions, according to a report in AirForces Monthly.

The BCATP provided an enormous and continuing economic boost, particularly in the Western provinces that were still recovering from the decade long depression. The final report of the BCATP Supervisory Board calculated that “ more than 3, 750 members of the RAF, RAAF, RNZAF and Allied nationals under RAF quotas married Canadian girls ,” many of whom remained in Canada to raise families.

However, in a Channel 4 documentary aired 3 June 2011, reporter Nick Cook showed an RAF pilot's report, obtained from RAF archives, reporting a UFO incident with a similar red ball of fire on a bombing mission over Germany, but dated 1942 and taken with fact that the term was already in use by radar operators in 1944, must raise some doubt as to the origin of the term

" A RAF Intelligence report in late October 1940 circulated to all pilots and their squadrons, with copies to Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, and the War Cabinet, declared: ' The manoeuvrability of the CR. 42s, in particular their capacity to execute an extremely tight half roll, has caused considerable surprise to other pilots and undoubtedly saved many Italian fighters from destruction.

The Balfour report of 1921, the Geddes Axe of 1922 and the Salisbury Committee of 1923 all found in favour of the RAF despite lobbying from the Admiralty and opposition in Parliament.

In their report to the RAF, the observatory said that Venus, ‘ the queen of UFOs ’, which had been shining with exceptional brilliance in the early morning sky to the east, probably explained the light shown on the video.

In August 1941 he received a report on the relative inefficiency of RAF daytime raids and proposals for area bombing by night: to implement the proposals he determined that a new leader was required and replaced the chief of bomber command, Air Chief Marshal Richard Peirse, with Arthur Harris.

The report stated that RAF Kinloss authorities believed there was a potential for chemical weapons agents and radiological contamination to be present in the ground:

Their report spurred the RAF to create an RAF Army Cooperation Command and to develop tentacle equipment and procedures placing an Air Liaison Officer with each brigade.

An RAF board of inquiry in 1995 ruled that the cause was pilot error ; on 13 July 2011 a new report cleared both pilots.

RAF Kinloss were notified of the boy's report together with the reports of several other witnesses who also had seen the red flash over Beinn Eighe.

British troops used 72 million amphetamine tablets in the Second World War and the RAF got through so many that " Methedrine won the Battle of Britain " according to one report.

A 2003 MoD report on the impact of the NMD upgrade at RAF Fylingdales reiterated that the base was within health guidelines and would remain so.

During these incidents, two Belgian F-16s attempted to intercept the objects ( getting a successful missile lock at two occasions ) only to be outmaneuvered ; a key conclusion of the Project Condign report was that no attempt should be made on the part of civilian or RAF Air Defence aircraft to outmaneuver these objects except to place them astern to mitigate the risk of collision.

However an adverse report on flying safety standards saw him dismissed from the position of CAS and seconded to the RAF prior to World War II.

Suffolk Constabulary have a record, dated 26 December 1980, of a report from the law Enforcement Desk of RAF Woodbridge, stating that " We have a sighting of some unusual lights in the sky, we have sent some unarmed troops to investigate, we are terming it as a U. F. O.

In response to the concerns raised by the Butt report, Cherwell produced his dehousing paper ( first circulated on 30 March 1942 ), which proposed that by area bombing, instead of precision bombing, the deficiencies of the RAF could be mitigated.

* Andover Sound local radio station report with pictures of the RAF Farewell to Andover event