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GCCS annual report for 1940, overview by AGD for C together with individual section...
Catalogue reference: HW 14/11
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This record is about the GCCS annual report for 1940, overview by AGD for C together with individual section... dating from 1941 Jan 22-31 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 14/11
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1941 Jan 22-31
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GCCS annual report for 1940, overview by AGD for C together with individual section reports; letter from HAS to Director of Intelligence (D of I) at AM, Air Commodore AR Boyle, putting case for upgrading certain posts in AS and at Cheadle and asking for recognition of cryptography as an occupation of value to the RAF; AGD's contingency plan for vacating BP and also deploying Service and FO Sigint units from south of England in event of invasion; support from BTM; 3 French officers at BP request permission to bring their families from Vichy France; paper by HC Kenworthy on cover of world-wide commercial and diplomatic Sigint targets by PO and Metropolitan Police Sigint stations under auspices of FO; paper by MI-8(C) on detection of illicit wireless transmissions in India and the Colonies with detailed appendices on overseas DF and collection assets; experimental REB work on German frequencies
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