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The Research Office of the Reich Air Ministry (German: Forschungsamt (FA), English: "Research Bureau") was the signals intelligence and cryptanalytic agency of the German Nazi Party from 1933 to 1945. Run since its inception by Luftwaffe chief Hermann Göring, the Research Bureau was a Party institution rather than an official Wehrmacht-run military signals intelligence and cryptographic agency (headed up by the German High Command's OKW/Chi). Described as "the richest, most secret, the most Nazi, and the most influential" of all the German cryptoanalytic intelligence agencies,〔David Kahn, Hitler's Spies. Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press, 1978 p.180 〕 it was unknown by the Allies until after the end of the war. A U.S. TICOM intelligence recovery team discovered papers at the Kaufbeuren Air Base indicating it was the FA's final location after having fled Berlin in the face of the Soviet Army advance in the north.〔http://www.ticomarchive.com/the-targets/fa-nazi-party FA (Nazi Party)〕 Other names for the FA included Hermann Göring's Research Bureau and Herman Göring cipher bureau. Its official full name in German was Forschungsamt des Reichsluftfahrt Ministerium, and in English the "Research Office of the Ministry of Aviation (Luftwaffe)". ==History== Hermann Göring was a top Nazi Party member who founded the party-run FA along with Gottfried Schapper in April 1933. Schapper had worked in the Reichswehr Ministry from 1927 to 1933 and been dissatisfied by both the scope of monitoring work and the incompetence of the methods employed there. He along with some colleagues including Richard Schimpf, his predecessor, resigned in 1933 and proposed to Göring that a separate office be created that would be free from department ties. Schapper requested, due to both limited scope of operations and incompetence in the signals office of the Reichswehr Ministry, that the new agency be independent of the ministry. Göring consented and later stated during TICOM interrogations that he wanted an organization of his own which could handle all phases of monitoring under one central control. Göring ensured it was camouflaged under the title Reichsluftrahrtministerium-Forschungsamt to confuse its role with the Nazi hierarchy, though in reality it was not connected to the Aviation ministry in any manner. Göring also ensured by 1935 that it was not subordinated to the Reich Air Ministry with its own administration, with financing directly from the Treasury by 1938 . By then it was known as Hermann Göring's Research Bureau. The FA was a party-run civilian organization, unlike complementary organizations which existed at the same time, e.g. OKW/Chi, which were military in nature. For security purposes, a small number of individuals, who were civilians, were ordered to wear German Luftwaffe uniforms. This was to ensure fruitful communication between signals intelligence. TICOM was the operation by the United States to seize military assets after the end of the war. The existence of Göring's Research Bureau was unknown by TICOM at the start of the war, which came as some surprise when papers were discovered by TICOM Team 1 at the Kaufbeuren Air Base indicating it was the FA's final location after fleeing there from heavy combat zones in the north.〔 There it occupied a block of six buildings at the airfield barracks on the local airfield, secured by the 289th Combat Engineers. The FA had been disbanded and all documents burned shortly before the arrival of the American Army. A small handful of documents discovered after an extensive search provided confirmation of the existence of the FA and provided a basic outline of its organization.〔 "This basic information was augmented after the capture of the FA director Schapper and one of his department heads, Erwin Rentschler. These and other interrogations, along with a later questioning of Herman Goering himself, and ancillary information derived from the examination of the other German SIGINT agencies, provided the bulk of the intelligence derived by TIOCM on the FA."〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Research Office of the Reich Air Ministry」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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