Between The World Wars
There was substantial SIGINT work between the World Wars, although the secrecy surrounding it was extreme. While it was primarily COMINT, ELINT emerged with the development of radar.
Both sides developed direction-finding (DF) and communications interception stations during the war, although those programs often began with naval search & rescue.
Read more about this topic: Signals Intelligence In Modern History
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