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C relaxes security restrictions at BP, official designation of GCCS in future to...
Catalogue reference: HW 14/3
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HW 14/3
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1940 Jan-Feb
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C relaxes security restrictions at BP, official designation of GCCS in future to be Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ); GCCS argues against establishing a Combined Cryptographic Bureau for the Middle East (ME), in Cairo; senior appointments atBP Jan 5 following retirement of Oliver Strachey; Sigint liaison with South Africa, Canada and New Zealand; liaison with French, Poles and Finns, monthly intelligence report from French; listing of all known German transmitters and frequencies as at February 1940; Sigint from Funchal (Madeira); EW Travis (EWT) Deputy Head of GCCS, chairs inter-Service meeting on introduction into all Services of RAF's Type X cypher machine; organisation of Y Services, terms of reference for Wireless Telegraphy Board (WTB)
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Government Code and Cypher School: Directorate: Second World War Policy Papers
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