ABSTRACT
The narrative of events during the Battle of Crete is plain enough, though dismal to contemplate 50 years later. It is the intelligence, and still more the use that was made of it, which is in dispute. Here I must at once ‘declare an interest’: as an army officer in Hut 3 at Bletchley Park I wrote some of the signals that were sent to General Freyberg, commanding the defence force, and was fully aware of those sent while I was not on duty. It is upon them, and upon their relevance to events upon the ground, that I shall concentrate.
