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Very Special Intelligence: The Story of the Admiralty's Operational Intelligence Centre, 1939–1945, hardback book by Patrick Beesly, 1977. Operational Intelligence Centre was the nerve centre of British naval operations during World War II. Patrick Beesly served there from 1940 to 1945 and describes how intelligence was gathered and how it was used to thwart the Kriegsmarine.