It’s a well known fact that back in 1940 with the threat of the Nazi invasion of England by Hitler that Winston Churchill organised a resistance force. Caches of weapons were built up around the country in hiding places and people were organised and trained to fight as the French resistance did after the Nazi invasion. Of course the invasion of England never came and to this day a number of the caches of explosives, weapons and equipment still lie buried in parts of England awaiting resistance fighters who will never come and are not now needed.
It is a little known fact that Winston Churchill also created an espionage network across the United Kingdom in 1940 to assist the resistance fighters and to watch the government, the law enforcement agencies, the army, the navy, the air force, the people of the towns and cities and generally speaking the streets, the transport routes and coastline for any attempts to infiltrate the land, the communities and the forces organised to protect the country. This agency was made up of ordinary citizens, chosen for their loyalty, their levels of intelligence and their foresight.
They were scattered across the UK, armed, equipped with the latest technology, which at the time was radio and radar equipment, and given diplomatic immunity on the British mainland. They were a non military branch of the civil service. They were recruited on the basis of recommendation from Churchill’s most trusted aides. They were of course not needed when Hitler’s army failed to invade, but they continued their espionage work through the war.
The police, Special Branch, MI5 and MI6 watch for threats against the UK, domestic and foreign. They have done since Churchill’s time and before, but since 1940 those watchmen and watchwomen of the known and recognised services have been in turn watched by Churchill’s war time secret network.
It’s a little known fact that the network of watchers set up by Churchill in 1940 still exists to this day and there is still a web of men and women in every town and village across the UK working for a branch of the civil service known as the Department for Internal Concerns or the DIC. They are the unseen and unknown; they are those who watch the watchers.