Staff matters including recruiting, liaison with Oxford and Cambridge Universities;...

HW 14/48

1942 Aug 1-10

Staff matters including recruiting, liaison with Oxford and Cambridge Universities; WRNS postings, commissions approved for certain Wrens working for BP, expansion of Stanmore to accommodate more Wrens and Cantab processing machines similar to work by Wrens at Gayhurst and Wavendon; AS letters to AM on RAF manning and promotions; serious staffing problems in Hut 3, Wing Cdr Jones to EWT; Major HB Sayer to be promoted to Lt Col and take new W/T coordination post at BP Aug 4; minutes of AGD's Heads of Sections' meeting of Aug 1; Col Tiltman's Sigint course at Bedford, BP lectures for Sigint course at Newbold Revel Rugby, selection of RAF candidates for training at Rugby; table illustrating various German codes broken by AS and Major Pritchard during June; BP EP customer distribution lists A, B and C; list of French military cyphers being read as at Aug; Italian military cover problems; Capt H Sandwith of Sigs Department Admiralty to visit BP late Aug before Sigint liaison/inspection visit to Gibraltar, Freetown, Kilindini, South Africa, Melbourne and Washington; letter from DMI, Major Gen FHN Davidson, to C explaining apparent compromise of work of BP in WO recruiting of Sigint recruits following complaint from BP, BP dissatisfied with DMI explanation; Paprika code deception plans Aug 5; allocation of receivers for various E tasks at GPO Station Whitchurch, Mar-Aug 1942; exchanges with Major G Stevens, BP's Sigint representative in Washington, status of US attack on various countries' cyphers, US Ambassador London sending Finnish broadcasts intercepted by BBC to Washington - BP to investigate, Head of Met Party in AS, Dr Mc'Vittie, invited to Washington to advise US Aug 3, liaison with US War and Navy Departments, letters from Capt E Hastings RN in Washington to AGD Aug 6 on UK Sigint liaison matters with US and Canada; minutes of Combined Comms Board Telecommunications Committee Sub-committee on Codes and Cyphers held in Washington Aug 6, liaison with Ottawa, details of Canadian intercept sent to BP; liaison with Russia, UK Sigint representative in Moscow, Col Crankshaw, to return to Moscow from UK via ME; correspondence with CBME and other Sigint authorities in ME, tactical use of Sigint in ME, captured Axis documents sent to BP Aug 4, Sigint comms routes to ME, ME concern over E compromise during Sigint training at Cheadle, Director CBME to be transfered to MI-6 to ease problems with Army command chain, Sigint support to C-in-C Med after move to Alexandria Aug 7, supply of Sigint on Axis agents to ME; liaison with UK Sigint in West Africa, with Shaw at Kilindini and with Australia; liaison with WO and AM; liaison with Cheadle and Dunstable on German met problems; BP liaison with Mansfield College Oxford on provision of Type X cypher keys; Z/MSS 7, BP study of GAF intentions against Allied convoys en route from UK to Gibraltar Aug 5; summary of intelligence reports on Allied activities sent from Chile to Berlin during 1942; BP Summary No 8 of enemy intelligence reports July/Aug; AS report to AM on GAF GCI control in Friesian Islands; CX/MSS S13-18 BP reports on German code-names; CX/MSS/1266/TG of Aug 6 BP report on German plans to counter expected major Allied re-supply of Malta; report TR/445 from AM Great Baddow Research Station on enemy PWF signals as jammers

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