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Series
Government Code and Cypher School: Diplomatic and Commercial Sections: Reports of...
Catalogue reference: HW 32
What's it about?
HW 32
This series comprises messages passing between governments and their legal representatives abroad. The COM file series had the same Top Secret classification as the BJ file in which diplomatic traffic was issued, and was subject to the same...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- HW 32
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Title (The name of the record)
- Government Code and Cypher School: Diplomatic and Commercial Sections: Reports of Messages Passed on Diplomatic Channels (COM Series)
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1942-1945
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series comprises messages passing between governments and their legal representatives abroad. The COM file series had the same Top Secret classification as the BJ file in which diplomatic traffic was issued, and was subject to the same conditions of circulation.
The series was anomalous as the traffic was processed in the Diplomatic Section but was passed to the Commercial Section for onward transmission because the messages were of interest to the Ministry of Economic Warfare rather than the Foreign Office.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For records of the Ministry of Economic Warfare see FO 837
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
- COM file series
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English and French
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
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- Government Code and Cypher School, Commercial Section, 1938-1945
- Government Code and Cypher School, Diplomatic Section, 1919-1946
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 61 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Records not yet transferred
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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Government Communications Headquarters
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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Accumulation dates (The dates the record was accumulated)
- 1942 to 1945
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- Series is accruing
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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
- All surviving messages in the series have been preserved.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C15456/
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