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Appeals by AGD against careless talk; GCCS staffing, salaries and organisation as...
Catalogue reference: HW 14/6
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This record is about the Appeals by AGD against careless talk; GCCS staffing, salaries and organisation as... dating from 1940 July-Aug in the series Government Code and Cypher School: Directorate: Second World War Policy Papers. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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HW 14/6
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1940 July-Aug
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Appeals by AGD against careless talk; GCCS staffing, salaries and organisation as at Aug 1st, prepared for Treasury, AGD requests increased salaries for certain grades; new permit for visitors to BP; security rules for Hut 3, cypher system for transmitting Sigint reports from Hut 3; staff vetting; contingency plan for Sigint convoys to be sent by road from BP in event of invasion, mobile BP unit, BQ, to proceed to Peatwood Hall, Market Drayton, discussed at second meeting of BP SAC; transfer of GAF cover from Chatham to Chicksands, organised protest to Services by 7 top cryptographers, receiving unfavourable comments from War Office (WO) and AM; heated dispute between GCCS and RSS on solving illicit German cyphers; German code found on man remanded in UK; German agents in USA; cover of German police traffic; security of UK cypher systems; liaison with French, list of ten French officers to form first French Mission at BP, deployment after French capitulation, case for monitoring French communications; liaison with Finns, Captain Godfrey follows Lt Col Tiltman's visit to Finland, investigation into lost Sigint equipment; locations of Army officers in GCCS, reply to WO request; Lord Farrer of Ministry of Economic Warfare (MEW) requests permission for Sigint to be used to support UK case in Prize Court; weekly cover plans for RN Wireless Telegraphy (W/T) Station Flowerdown; standardisation of Sigint terminology, DNI proposals, Admiralty plans to bring its Y Service up to strength by end of year; build up of CBME, transfer of GCCS tasks, staff and equipment, setting up of dedicated Sigint channels
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Government Code and Cypher School: Directorate: Second World War Policy Papers
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