Minutes of first weekly meeting of BP Western Front Committee on Oct 10, maps and...

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1942 Oct 11-20

Minutes of first weekly meeting of BP Western Front Committee on Oct 10, maps and meetings to be held in Room 149 Block B, minutes of second meeting of Oct 17; security incident in Hut 3, investigation into careless talk, Wing Cdr Jones completes 3 months' trial period as Head of Hut 3, signal from Jones to AM and C Oct 13 on GAF instruction to avoid passing convoy information by telephone, increased security measures necessary for handling E by Allies as German losses might eventually lead them to doubt security of E, more evidence of German concern Oct 16; proposed Service officer promotions in Hut 3; staff recruiting and promotions, correspondence with Cambridge University; WRNS postings, problems with WRNS accommodation at Steeple Claydon, possibility of closing work at Adstock and moving all Wrens from there to Stanmore; agenda for third meeting of Berkeley Street Liaison Officers Oct 21; minutes of second meeting at BP planning 3-week German course, first course to start Nov 9 at Bedford, note by Nigel de Grey of June 1948 stating that course never got off the ground as sections failed to release staff for training; Admin Instruction No 1 issued by SOA RAF BP, new RAF admin post introduced at BP Oct 16, farewell letter to HAS from departing ACAS (I) Air Cdr C Medhurst, AS report on Research and Exploitation Oct 1-15, bid for more staff in Met Section to meet PM's request for daily summary of weather on Russian Front, visit by S/L E Smith of BP to upgrade met Sigint station at Dunstable, proposed format for SALU BMP report, SALU appreciation of GAF air to ground traffic in reaction to Allied Malta convoy, case by AS against proposed jamming by Bomber Command of GAF night fighter comms, case by AW Bonsall of AS for increased VHF DF on GAF fighters; case for increasing cover of German comms in Norway at Sigint sites in Scotland; alphabetical list of all E keys in use during Aug, decoded and unbroken traffic Aug-Oct as at Oct 17; individual responsibilities for transmission of Sigint from BP, list of routing indicators, addressees, types of traffic, code settings and traffic routes, dissemination of BP Sigint to military Commands, Cat I to be annotated Hogwash, Cat II Pipsqueak; visit by VCNS to BP; GCCS accumulating evidence for war crimes from German police traffic, results to be forwarded to FO; tasking for 18 sets at 351 WU Gibraltar; security declaration drafted by AD (S) for BTM employees to sign to safeguard security of their work for BP; minutes of second meeting of DF Coordinating Party held at Beaumanor; liaison with War and Navy Departments, notes from Frank Birch HNS to EWT on their recent joint visit to US, network diagram illustrating US Naval Sigint Organisation OP-20-G with posts and encumbants, another illustrating total US Sigint organisation, letters exchanged between FA Kendrick in Ottawa and AGD; correspondence with Col Crankshaw in Moscow, Shaw in Kilindini, with South Africa and Australia and with GOC-in-C West Africa and 371 WU Freetown; correspondence with CBME, dissemination of Sigint to US senior officers in Med area, signals between Director CMBE and Col Tiltman at BP concerning Sigint officer appointments in ME, Lt Col FO Jacob, Director CBME, to be resubordinated to MI-6 from Oct 15 and to relinquish duties with 5 IS, monthly Sept Sigint report from GHQ MEF signed by Lt Col A Tozer for DDMI (Y); accuracy of UK DF networks; DDMI (O)'s paper on Army Sigint Organisation with comments from Chairman of YC, Brigadier AL Harris, and DMI presented for comments by EWT; Allied Operation Torch in Med; GAF major reorganisation on Western Front; report on interrogations of German Army signals' POW on Oct 16 and 18; report by RAF ME Wireless Intelligence Service on use of R/T by GAF and IAF in Med area; BP reports on German Black and Caspian Sea operations, ZIP/ZTPGM/2249 of Oct 11, ZIP/ZTPI/19091 of Oct 12 and ZIP/ZTPI/19143 of Oct 13, all sent from DO Hut 3 to C, EX/SALU 11 of Oct 15 operations by GAF 3rd and 5th Air Fleets Sept 1942, SALU report on shipborne Sigint operations on HMS Scylla escorting northern convoy to Kola Peninsula, AS report on GAF Little Screw R/T traffic, CX/MSS/S.25 giving codenames for parts of German Field Post nos since June 1942

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