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Government Code and Cypher School: Liaison with Signals Intelligence Organisations...
Catalogue reference: HW 57
What's it about?
HW 57
This series contains records on GC&CS liaison with signals intelligence organisations in the United States from 1943 to 1945, with correspondence between the organisations, reports and details of exchanges of crypt and technical information....
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- HW 57
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Title (The name of the record)
- Government Code and Cypher School: Liaison with Signals Intelligence Organisations in the United States of America
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1941-1946
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains records on GC&CS liaison with signals intelligence organisations in the United States from 1943 to 1945, with correspondence between the organisations, reports and details of exchanges of crypt and technical information. The organisations involved include the American Signals Security Agency (SSA) and the British Signals Intelligence Liaison Unit.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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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
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- Government Code and Cypher School, 1919-1946
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 36 files and volumes
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Open
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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From 2004 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
- Intelligence
- Americas
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Accumulation dates (The dates the record was accumulated)
- File series ran from 1943 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)
- Selected under Acquisition Policy criterion 2.2.1.3, documenting UK relations with US based signals intelligence organisations during the Second World War. All surviving records selected.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C16172/
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Government Code and Cypher School: Liaison with Signals Intelligence Organisations in the United States of America
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