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JCC minutes; minutes of Directing Sub-committee for Research Section at BP; GCCS...
Catalogue reference: HW 14/21
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This record is about the JCC minutes; minutes of Directing Sub-committee for Research Section at BP; GCCS... dating from 1941 Oct 16-31 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 14/21
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1941 Oct 16-31
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JCC minutes; minutes of Directing Sub-committee for Research Section at BP; GCCS building programme; GCCS security at Elmers School building; BP transport problems; call-up deferment for certain GCCS staff; trawl for Wrens at BP; C signs Hut 3 orders andterms of reference, Apr 4, other items on Hut 3 by senior members of GCCS highlighting inter-Service rivalries, Hut 3 staffing problems; disagreement about IE Section, suggested phase-out; figures for UK worldwide E cover, 177 sets being employed, G Welchman of Hut 6 gives cover requirement plan; Dilly Knox's report on Lobster E; proposed new establishment for AS; officers of 4 IS to be on standby for overseas; suggestions for labour saving record keeping methods at 6 IS Beaumanor; proposal for joint Services RFP and Tina centre; Russian intercept taken by Poles at Stanmore to be sent to Cheadle for analysis instead of to BP; liaison with Canada; Norwegian collateral source provides information on Swedish cyphers; correspondence with CBME, establishment of RAF Section at CBME, Sigint from Sarafand; teleprinter recording equipment; RAF Comsec; combined GAF and German Navy operations against Allied shipping; German illicit transmitter near Dublin
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- The National Archives, Kew
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Open Document, Open Description
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Government Code and Cypher School: Directorate: Second World War Policy Papers
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