In late 1945 Yarborough was again made part of an overseas commission, this time to the American occupied sector of Germany. All civilian engineers and scientists who worked on these projects were given corresponding military ranks and uniforms under the guise of special operations and sent to the occupied regions to evaluate and report on the German technology. Yarborough arrived in Frankfurt in August, which was nothing more than a bomb site. His team was sent to the chemicals factory at Hürst as a base and was given an American driver and jeep and sent to Bavaria where many of the research and development factories had moved to during the war.

On arrival Cooke-Yarborough was posted to a Nazi house and given a DP (Displaced Person) as a maid and cook. It was here that he became part of CISC (Combined Intelligence Sub Committee). In this unit he and others from similar research backgrounds interviewed and inspected Germans and evaluated designs and equipment. There were many of these units who were all trying to get as much information as possible about the German technology, the BIOU (British Inspection Overseas Unit) being another unit like CISC. Cooke-Yarborough was surprised at the way the Germans were so quick to tell these committees what every machine and design was for which he could only explain in terms of their pride in these projects. Cooke-Yarborough worked his way around these factories until he ended up in France and was flown home.

This concluded E.H.Cooke-Yarborough's contribution and work for the war effort, when he arrived back in Britain the need for radio countermeasures was no longer a priority. Cooke-Yarborough and much of his team moved into the new field of nuclear electronics brought about by the return of the scientists from the Manhattan Project.

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