JCC minutes; summary of findings and recommendations for GCCS following inspection...

HW 14/27

1942 Jan 16-31

JCC minutes; summary of findings and recommendations for GCCS following inspection by Brigadier WE Van Cutsem Jan 8-30; new GCCS organisation, drafted on back of brochure for Doncaster racehorse sales of Sept 9 1926; diagram of proposed reorganisation ofmilitary Sigint at BP, EWT promoted to Deputy Director Service (DD S); weekly staff returns by section/hut with gains and losses and showing cumulative increase since Oct 1941, BP staff gradings and pay, junior staff promotions, manning of AS, intention to enlist all women into the WAAF, visit by RAF team on Jan 24 as prelude to enlisting female GCCS staff; proposals for changes in RAF Sigint trade structure, RAF/WAAF pay rates; RAF Section liaison with AI 4 in AM, resignation of Deputy Head RAF Section; centralisation of GAF/Italian AF (IAF) Sigint in Hut 10, RAF Section; composition of NS under F Birch, request for NS to have own transport; Wrens take over Gayhurst, The Camp, Walton Hall and Crawley Grange for billets Jan 22; WRNS detachment at BP to be subordinate to C-in-C Nore wef Jan 26; progress of GCCS following recent Chiefs of Staff decision to give high priority to the organisation; note to EWT by WG Welchman of Hut 6 on desirability of feedback to operators on E breaks; Professor Norman's apology to EWT and Mr Welchman for allowing uncleared personnel to view Bombe area on Jan 22; JES Cooper's report on first Officers' Sigint Course, held at Buckingham, Jan 6-16, course syllabus and individual officer's results; search for suitable candidates for training in Japanese; move of 6 IS from Beaumanor to BP, to be accommodated in 3 temporary huts, Feb/Mar 1942, changes in work of Central Party of 6 IS; liaison with Australia, Canada, South Africa and with Sigint authorities in Mauritius, liaison with Russia, German Sigint still reading Russian cyphers, Naval Sigint from Murmansk; correspondence with CBME, particularly on staff establishment conditions and grading, problems with Sigint channels, E machines captured in ME, Air Cdr Blandy's report on UK Sigint organisation in ME plus recommendations, UK Comsec in ME, enemy in possession of Allied cypher system and keys, diplomatic tasks for ME, sensitive Saudi diplomatic message for Rome of Jan 17, Sigint highlights from 51 WIU Gibraltar; cover of German illicit tasks at Sandridge; summary of Italian diplomatic tasks taken at PO stations; descriptions of GAF non-machine cyphers; feed of German met reports to UK Commands; MI-8 compromises Sigint source; German Sigint intercept of Allied Syko cypher card for Dec 11 1941, UK reaction; RAF transport aircraft to start carrying small weights of Sigint raw material to UK; paper on RAF Sigint collection security

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