Minutes of JCC meetings; BP Recreational Club, request for full-time organiser; pay...

HW 14/16

1941 June

Minutes of JCC meetings; BP Recreational Club, request for full-time organiser; pay and conditions for civilian staff at GCCS; complaint from Hut 6 accusing Col Butler of MI-8 of sabotaging its successful liaison with Cdr Ellingworth's Intelligence School at Chatham; details of MI-8 staff at BP; Hut 3 personnel as at June 6, organisation of Hut 3, list of Hut 3 officers; Frank Birch, HNS, takes over combined German/Italian Naval Section, WF Clarke, previously Head of Italian Section, relegated to research post; paper by HAS on RAF Sigint manning problems, particularly in AS, Gp Capt Blandy of AM writes to ACAS(I) supporting Cooper's case; minutes of RAF Sigint conference at BP with discussion on computors at Gibraltar and Cheadle; BP Sigint document storage and destruction; FO file Y 2856/G, BP security, security arrangements for Wavendon House; support from BTM; list of staff handling results of E decrypts; censor's supply of diplomatic telegrams to BP; Nigel de Grey proposes reorganisation of intelligence sections at BP, strongly worded reply from HNS threatening resignation if proposals implemented; meeting on IE at BP, opposition from HNS, summing up by Nigel de Grey; meeting of Directing Sub-committee for Research Section; proposal to remove Sigint weather from the Met Office and concentrate it at Dunstable under GCCS control, expansion of Weather Section at BP, distribution of Sigint weather reports to Commands; alternative site for PO Sigint station at Sandridge, PO to open new Sigint station at Whitchurch, Shropshire; WAAF teleprinter operators for Metropolitan Police Sigint station at Denmark Hill, proposal vetoed so release of slipreaders there not possible; Polish Sigint site at Stanmore to cover Soviet Air Force communications; Canada starting small Sigint organisation in Ottawa, requests GCCS advice and support; liaison with Finns, doubts concerning German/Finnish co-operation against Russia; liaison with Bertie in France; French corporal reports alleged security breaches by French Sigint analyst from BP; plans for overseas Sigint comcens, Type X drums to be shipped out; correspondence with CBME, summary of intercept from Cairo and Sarafand, local German agent communications to be processed at ME Sigint sites; Cable and Wireless compromise British 5 Cupboards cypher system; evidence for German exploitation of UK Naval and RAF communications; GAY Committee meeting

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