Editing Condor Legion (section)

===Abwehr===
The German [[Abwehr]] intelligence service, independent of the Condor Legion, was secretly involved in [[Operation Bodden]] and later played a part in the detection of the [[Operation Torch]] invasion fleet.<ref group="nb">"Bodden" refers to the strait separating the Baltic island of [[Rügen]] from the German mainland, and the Abwehr operation was a network of coastal listening stations overseeing a seabed detection system across the [[Strait of Gibraltar]]. Bodden's aim was to gather [[SIGINT]] via the underwater detection system and fourteen infra-red ship surveillance stations (nine in Spain and five in Morocco), which later relayed shipping information to U-boats in the Mediterranean and threatening convoys.</ref>