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Catalogue reference: HW 14/50
This record is about the BP staff selection and retention; RAF manning, WRNS postings, ATS postings to BP... dating from 1942 Aug 21-31 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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BP staff selection and retention; RAF manning, WRNS postings, ATS postings to BP from Beaumanor; report from Wing Cdr Jones to EWT on developments in Hut 3; overnight duty officer to be introduced in AS from Sept 1; survey of typewriters in AS; list of Axis cypher priorities in BP Cypher Office, RAF sigs personnel from Leighton Buzzard open up new Sigint Comcen in Hut 14A Aug 22, BP now capable of sending Sigint reports direct to Commands abroad, maintenance of Type X, AM criticises maintenance of Type X machines at BP, meeting on Type X situation Aug 24, minutes of BP Comms Committee meeting Aug 24, Type X Cypher Training School to be set up in Hut 5 from Sept; new war establishment issued for HQ Military Wing at BP under command of Col JH Tiltman; interview results for next Sigint course at 50 Sigs Depot Aug 22; alphabetical list of all German E and F keys in use as at Aug 30; paper by AW Bonsall of AS present in War Room of No 11 Group during Allied raid on Dieppe with recommendations for BP involvement in any future operations, comments from HAS and supporting paper from another area of BP; list of interrupted under-water international cables for Aug; letter from Wing Cdr Jones of Hut 3 to Gp Capt Winterbotham at AM arguing against transferring Hut 3's main reporting commitment to a Service reporting authority in London, Aug 31; case for Sigint cover at Wick; French Resistance decodes sent from AD (S) to MI-6; liaison with US, exchanges between HAS and Dr Mc'Vittie, visiting Washington on poor security of US weather codes, US integree planned for BP, correspondence with War and Navy Departments, policy letter from EWT to C on respective Sigint liaison roles of Kendrick in Ottawa and Capt Hastings and Major Stevens in Washington Aug 25; liaison with Russia, Col Crankshaw arrives back in Moscow from UK via ME Aug 24, to fly to Murmansk Sept 1 to liaise with Naval Sigint; liaison with AM, WO, C-in-C West Africa and South Africa; correspondence with CBME, charter for Director CBME Aug 26, cryptic letters from Director CBME to HAS, cover situation in Med area on German, Italian, French and Spanish air tasks; UK guide on identification of German traffic sent to US Army Sigint in UK; report by F/O RE Gunn of RAF Cheadle who led Sigint team on HMS Nelson en route from UK to Med and return July 31-Aug 25 with Malta relief convoy, special Sigint operation at Gibraltar to support team on HMS Nelson Aug 6-20; capture of German Sigint unit west of El Alamein July 10, interrogation of German Sigint officer; BP to GOC-in-C West Africa Accra giving instructions for handling all Sigint reports previously annotated Special in future to be given prefix Ultra; time taken for commissioning Army and ATS O/Rs; W/T traffic (Service) recognition data for Germany, Italy, Japan, France and Spain; BP reports on Italian military network to Russian Front during Aug and GAF GCI control in Friesian Islands
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