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Press article of Mar 1938 by LCS Mansfield claiming that GCCS monitored foreign diplomatic...
Catalogue reference: HW 14/15
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This record is about the Press article of Mar 1938 by LCS Mansfield claiming that GCCS monitored foreign diplomatic... dating from 1941 May 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 14/15
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1941 May
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Press article of Mar 1938 by LCS Mansfield claiming that GCCS monitored foreign diplomatic communications; minutes of JCC meetings; internal operational instructions for NS; Cheadle computors complain to HAS, criticism of Cheadle reporting; GCCS Sigint distribution; tasking for 8 Polish Sigint operators at Stanmore; loss and replacement of radio receivers for the Finns; liaison with Bertie in France; liaison with CBME, communications problems, dissemination of Sigint in ME, special Sigint service to Crete; proposal for UK Sigint centre in Ceylon; GAY Committee, German DF results; UK cyphers, one-time pads, new cypher production centre to be established in Juxon Street
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HW 14
Government Code and Cypher School: Directorate: Second World War Policy Papers
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