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GCCS staff strength in Dec 1941 with true establishment figures by section compared...
Catalogue reference: HW 14/26
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This record is about the GCCS staff strength in Dec 1941 with true establishment figures by section compared... dating from 1942 Jan 1-15 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 14/26
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1942 Jan 1-15
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GCCS staff strength in Dec 1941 with true establishment figures by section compared with Dec 1940, RAF Section staff numbers and deficiencies, requirement for more WAAFs and RAF commissions; weekly returns of BP staff showing gains and losses, staff problems of SALU; suggested preventative measures for WRNS transfer requests from BP, WRNS sick record; JCC minutes; building programme for Huts 3 and 6, MI-14 comments on future of Hut 3, AGD's strong comments to C on unauthorised paper by Major Curtis on Dec 19 on work of Hut 3; disciplinary matter in Air Section, careless talk; annual report for Bombe work in Hut 11; Frederick Freeborn's complaint about lack of transport for his Hut 7 Machine Room Section; distribution list for BJ series reports from BP; HC Kenworthy's work on spot receivers to take U-boat frequencies at Scarborough, Admiralty to supply radios and technical equipment; preparations for detached GCCS cypher party to GHQ in event of invasion, list of Sigint cleared officers at GHQ; Gayhurst and Crawley Grange Newport Pagnell, The Camp Steeple Claydon and Walton Hall Walton to be requisitioned for WRNS accommodation; future move of 6 IS from Beaumanor to BP; daily correspondence with CBME, CBME manning deficiencies and future requirements, Sigint channels to ME to go via Cable & Wireless if RAF comms disrupted; Russian/UK Sigint liaison; liaison with Canada; correspondence with Capt Bertrand of French Sigint; case for expansion of UK Sigint organisation, with appendices for all 3 Services and implemented by the Chiefs of Staff Committee on Jan 9; criticism of Met Sigint organisation at Dunstable; assessment of German enciphered teleprinter capability; extracts from GAF fighter pilot transmissions while using Little Screw beacon orientation system and awaiting Allied bombers; GAF reaction to British raid on Vaagso Island on Dec 27; illicit German Sigint station at Funchal, Madeira
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HW 14
Government Code and Cypher School: Directorate: Second World War Policy Papers
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