Churchill's Turkey policy and centralized intelligence

Robin Denniston's study follows Churchill, the Foreign Office, and Turkey between 1942 and 1944. Churchill's sustained attention to Turkey is tied to his experience of the Dardanelles campaign and the risk that Turkey might enter the war. His privileged access to cryptographic intelligence gave him an unusually broad view of events. Yet much of the material came together only in his own head, so departments could be surprised with information they had never seen. Concentrating the intelligence picture in one person offered some security, but it made coordination with the military and Foreign Office harder.