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Government Code and Cypher School: Diplomatic Section: Reports of German Diplomatic...
Catalogue reference: HW 36
What's it about?
HW 36
Reports of German diplomatic messages decyphered by the Diplomatic Section. GERDI (German Diplomatic) reports contain general diplomatic intelligence and agent material. IR (Ireland) reports contain messages between the German Ministry of Foreign...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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HW 36
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Title (The name of the record)
- Government Code and Cypher School: Diplomatic Section: Reports of German Diplomatic Messages (GERDI, IR and OTP Reports)
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Date (When the record was created)
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1942-1943
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Description (What the record is about)
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Reports of German diplomatic messages decyphered by the Diplomatic Section. GERDI (German Diplomatic) reports contain general diplomatic intelligence and agent material. IR (Ireland) reports contain messages between the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Berlin and the German legation in Dublin.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
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GERDI, IR and OTP reports
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
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Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
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English and German
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- Government Code and Cypher School, Diplomatic Section, 1919-1946
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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7 files and volumes
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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from 2001 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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- Topics
- International
- Ireland
- Intelligence
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Custodial history (Describes where and how the record has been held from creation to transfer to The National Archives)
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These records were passed to the Government Communications Headquarters when it succeeded the Government Code and Cypher School in 1946.
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Accumulation dates (The dates the record was accumulated)
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1942 to 1945
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
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No future accruals expected.
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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
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All surviving reports have been selected for permanent preservation, though a large number of IR reports, and all except one OTP German diplomatic report, have not survived. All Government Code and Cypher School material from the Second World War is selected without review, under section 2.2.1.3 of the PRO acquisition policy.
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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Diplomatic Section was responsible for decyphering intercepted diplomatic wireless messages during the Second World War.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C15596/
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