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Government Communications Headquarters and predecessor: Soviet Bloc reports
Catalogue reference: HW 75
What's it about?
HW 75
This series covers GCHQ reports on the Soviet Bloc countries issued during the period 1945-1950 inclusive. The countries included in this series are Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Soviet Union (USSR), and Yugoslavia....
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- HW 75
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Title (The name of the record)
- Government Communications Headquarters and predecessor: Soviet Bloc reports
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1945-1950
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series covers GCHQ reports on the Soviet Bloc countries issued during the period 1945-1950 inclusive. The countries included in this series are Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Soviet Union (USSR), and Yugoslavia.
The reports cover the following: military, economic, state security and police. Some of the reports reflect the changes and upheaval in Europe following the Second World War including the establishment of communist regimes in a number of countries.
Reports whose serial number is preceded by 'T' are straight translations with analyst comments added, whereas reports whose serial number is preceded by 'C' are reports composed by the analyst from available information.
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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)
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- Government Code and Cypher School, 1919-1946
- Government Communications Headquarters, 1946-1946
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 534 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Open unless otherwise stated
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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From 2007 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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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 3.1.2, and according to paragraph 6.1.1 of OSP 28
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C16497/
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Government Communications Headquarters and predecessor: Soviet Bloc reports
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