Minutes of Heads of Sections meeting of Civil and Commercial GCCS Departments at...

HW 14/42

1942 July 1-10

Minutes of Heads of Sections meeting of Civil and Commercial GCCS Departments at Berkeley Street with AGD in attendance, report by AGD to C with copy to EWT on monthly highlights in the Civil Section during June 1942; S/L Jones to be promoted to Wing Cdrand become new Head of Hut 3 for trial period of three months, protests from WO to C; HNS asks AD (S) when new type of Bombe would arrive; new combined Air and Naval Intelligence Watch in Hut 4; pneumatic tubes to be installed at BP; weekly summary of enemy agent and diplomatic intelligence reports; note to C by AGD requesting blanketing of cable intercept from Washington to London on American cables; bid for additional intercept positions in UK; minutes of first meeting of Library Panel; proportion of Bombe time spent on various E keys for month of June; monthly return of new Axis traffic and cyphers for June; Hut 7 Machine Room sends GAF activity records for April/May to AS; summary of Axis agents' intelligence reports; paper by AW Bonsall on exploitation of GAF low grade codes on Western Front; GCCS requests prior tip-offs on UK combined operations in order to adjust Sigint cover; paper by WG Welchman to EWT on provision of Wrens and maintenance of Bombes, request to requisition additional buildings for new intake of some 500 Wrens and special machinery, first choice Stowe School with buildings in Manchester as alternative plan, buildings at Stanmore to be requisitioned for accommodation of Wrens as alternative to Stowe School and Manchester; GCCS report on enemy exploitation of high grade British codes and cyphers; nomenclature for Y activities; 6 IS TA notes for July 7; results of 6th Sigint Course held at 50 Signals Depot Jun 22-July 3; French Resistance decrypts for SIS from AD (S); 2 copies of report by HC Kenworthy to EWT on progress to date on German non-morse intercept and processing and future plans for main non-morse intercept site at Knockholt; DMI's support for detachment of Sigint personnel to GHQ in time of crisis; policy paper on Sigint exchange with Russia, table comparing value of Russian intercept of German Police traffic with negligible UK intercepts; letter from AGD to Cdr Little, Canadian DNI in Ottawa; correspondence with CBME, UK Sigint units preparing to withdraw from Egypt and move to Sarafand, contingencies for emergency comms, summary of exchanges between EWT and Director CBME July 4-8, arrangements for General Auchinleck in ME to personally receive selected Sigint reports; microfilm requirements for raw traffic intercepted abroad; YI (India) Board Secretary to visit Sigint units in UK; GCCS bid for Axis agent cover at MI-8 intercept position in Freetown; minutes of first meeting of Sub-committee G (Codes and Cyphers) held at Admiralty on July 9, provision of cyphers and codes for combined British/US use for inter-service purposes, code and cypher comms between RAF and USAF units in UK; RSS report on Italian radio network

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