page_title: German Intercept Station Operations during World War II
section_title: Control of intercept coverage 1939–1944
hierarchical_section_title: German Intercept Station Operations during World War II / Intercept operations during World War II / Control of intercept coverage 1939–1944
caption_attribution_description: English: KONA Signal Intelligence Regiment layout
context_page_description: German Intercept Station Operations were intercept operations that were undertaken by the German Army forces in Europe during World War II. Interception is the gathering of radio signals as part of a signals intelligence operation.
context_section_description: Control of intercept coverage during the war stemmed from the Intelligence Officers of the Eastern Armies Branch and the Western Armies Branch As Alfred Jodl stated:
  these officers were thoroughly familiar with the general signal intelligence picture
  The chain of command was very clear during the last year of the war. The Intelligence officers of the Eastern Armies Branch and the Western Armies Branch briefed the chief of the Understaff of General der Nachrichtenaufklärung (GdNA), who had control over all the KONA regiments and who issued to them their directives for intercept coverage. In the west, the Understaff worked through the Senior Commander of Signal Intelligence, (German: Hoeherer Kommandeur der Nachrichten Aufklaerung) (Abbr. Hoeh Kdr d. NA) whose function it was to coordinate the intercept coverage of KONA 5 and KONA 6.
  With the other KONA, the chain of command from the Understaff was direct. The Signal Intelligence Evaluation Centre (NAAS) issued the directives for intercept coverage to all units subordinate to the KONA.
  In 1941 to 1944, previous to the establishment of the GdNA organisation, the chain of command appears to have been the following: 
  Non-Russian intercept coverage was distributed by the Western Armies Branch through the Control Station of the Signal Intelligence of the Army High Command (OKH/LNA)
  Russian intercept was directed by the Eastern Armies Branch through the Intercept Control Station East of the Army High Command (OKH/HLS Ost)
caption: German Army Signal Intelligence Regiment Operations Diagram – Based on KONA 1
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