TICOM Team 6, formed in February 1945, was a joint team dedicated to the capture and exploitation of German Naval SIGINT targets. Its specific targets were the German Naval Intelligence Center, thought at that time to be at Lanke, and the German SIGINT headquarters believed to be at Eberswalde, both in the Berlin area. However, the Soviet offensive that month drove these units north west into Schleswig-Holstein, closer to the Naval bases around Kiel and Donitz’s headquarters in Flensburg. After crossing the Rhine, this area was to be the responsibility of 21st Army Group, allowing TICOM access to these suspected SIGINT sites.

            Due to these circumstances, Team 6 was the first TICOM team sent out. The team as organized was under the command of Commander A.M.S. Mackenzie, RNVR, head  of Naval Section IV Research at GC&CS, with Lieutenant John Nuelsen, USNR as executive officer, with two British and two American junior naval officers. The team, activated on 15 April, was sent to Holland to link up with 30 AU headquartered at Venlo. For the next two months, they followed (and sometimes led) the army into northern Germany, and captured a number of important naval intelligence targets including: