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Post-war organisation of GCCS: instruction of Sept 15 1944 from C and/or Chairman...
Catalogue reference: HW 3/169
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HW 3/169
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1944-1945
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Post-war organisation of GCCS: instruction of Sept 15 1944 from C and/or Chairman of Sub-Committee B to Director GCCS requesting he set up committee to publish paper on future of UK Sigint; initial draft of said paper from GCCS senior officers, E Crankshaw, H Hinsley and G Welchman; final draft of said paper, Part I General Problem of Secret Intelligence and Security in Peace, Part II Sigint and signals security in war, Part III Summary, and Addendum, A Note on Future of GCCS, addressed to Director GCCS, Sir Edward Travis, Sept 17 1944; minute of Sept 25 1944 from CPA to CSS supporting above papers by GCCS triumvirate; paper by unknown author, possibly Director GCCS or Chairman of Sub-Committee B, on future of London Signal Intelligence Centre (LSIC); revised report of Jan 1 1945 by AD (Mch) of GCCS to Sub-Committee B on place of cryptography and traffic analysis in Sigint; Part V of a paper by AG Denniston, DD (C) to Director General giving views on future of Diplomatic and Commercial Sections of GCCS after the war, Oct 11 1944
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