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Minutes of JCC meetings; appraisal of Hut 6 E exploitation and suggestions for improvements;...
Catalogue reference: HW 14/17
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This record is about the Minutes of JCC meetings; appraisal of Hut 6 E exploitation and suggestions for improvements;... dating from 1941 July 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 14/17
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1941 July
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Minutes of JCC meetings; appraisal of Hut 6 E exploitation and suggestions for improvements; storage for Hut 6 records; BP accommodation; security at BP, FO File Y 3072/G; GCCS staff selection; Diplomatic Section to return to BP from Elmers School, Elmers School to become sleeping accommodation; special GCCS cypher party for GHQ Home Forces; terms of reference for IE Section, more on inter-Service intelligence centre at BP, intelligence officers to be at source; Hut 3 report, Germans Decypher Russian Military Communications; BP communications to Commands and Sigint stations; alleged careless talk by Captain Meslin, a French Sigint worker at BP, declaration by Meslin investigated by senior investigation board, including AGD and DCSS Col Vivian; French NS report on Vichy French and Free French cyphers; UK cover of Ultra, new UK coverword for German E cypher, list of 31 different E keys with UK codeword allocation; summary of Sigint stations in UK; report by HC Kenworthy on search in UK for German non-morse communications; No 4 IS Sigint course statistics; meeting at Broadway Buildings July 8 to discuss RSS, MI-6 to take over control of RSS overseas, KGB agent traffic; future of 6 IS Beaumanor, to move to BP and come closer to 4 IS; meeting of GAY Committee; correspondence with CBME, staff list for CBME, letter from Professor Boase to AGD concerning his return to BP from CBME, UK military Sigint from West Africa and ME; liaison with Canadian Sigint, details of Canadian organisation, headed by HO Yardley, author of The Black Chamber, expelled from US Sigint organisation and now going under alias of Herbert Osborne; PO takes over rectory at Whitchurch, Salop, for Sigint intercept station
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Government Code and Cypher School: Directorate: Second World War Policy Papers
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