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AD (S)s comments on new orders for Hut 3; Diplomatic Section to move from Elmers...
Catalogue reference: HW 14/30
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This record is about the AD (S)s comments on new orders for Hut 3; Diplomatic Section to move from Elmers... dating from 1942 Mar 1-10 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 14/30
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1942 Mar 1-10
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AD (S)s comments on new orders for Hut 3; Diplomatic Section to move from Elmers School to Berkeley Street Mar 9-10; AD (S)'s comments on new orders for Hut 3; first meeting of W/T I Committee; GCCS correspondence with MI-8, AM DDI 4 and MI-6; annual leave entitlement for civilians; letter to HAS from Frenchman who previously worked with him in Sigint; alphabetical list of all E keys in use with relevant codenames, state of progress against E keys, with illustrated maps showing areas used for each key and assessment of available resources, percentages of Bombe time spent on various E keys for Feb, minute to C from EWT on problems of U-boat keys and need for more Bombes, supporting information for EWT's minute from Heads of Bombe huts; evidence for lack of cover on German police nets; German frequencies to be monitored at RAF Newbold; further recommendations for improvements at Sigint met station Dunstable; review of PO Y Service sites; telephone directory for RAF Section; research on GAF Sigint both at AM and BP; tasks of 6 IS, planned to move from Beaumanor to BP in late April, with diagram of traffic processing chain; disciplining of 5 Wrens at BP, supervision of Wrens billeted at Gayhurst and Crawley Grange; deferment request for 16 BTM Hollerith men at BP; liaison with South Africa and Canada; correspondence with CBME, case for ATS Sigint Wing in Cairo, ISOS party for CBME, trip report on visit to ME Sigint sites by Naval Lt of NID Section 12; report from AM Great Baddow Research Station, Chelmsford on affects of refraction on centimetric waves, ie early stages of radar development; appointment of 3 new Deputy Directors to C representing the Army Navy and Air Force wef Mar 9; Sigint exercise at GHQ employing detached GCCS staff; German Secret Naval Service X/7; receiver position at Beaumanor by end of year and training programme for the unit
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