Staff recruitment, technical staff for Tunny development, printing of Tunny non-morse...

HW 14/56

1942 Oct 21-31

Staff recruitment, technical staff for Tunny development, printing of Tunny non-morse at BP; requisitioning of house and stables in Adstock for Wrens, establishment figures for Wrens working machines for GCCS, WRNS establishment for Stanmore, approximately 440 by Feb 1943, cover story for Stanmore Wrens, security briefing for Wrens from AD (S); accommodation problems for ATS from 4 IS and 6 IS at BP; minutes of fourth meeting of BPCC, Sigint channels between BP and ME, particularly Gibraltar, new Sigint channels, SCU organisation; fire-fighting and ARP duties at BP; banning of unauthorised electrical appliances at BP; letter from EWT to Chairman of YC with record of delays in building new Sigint station at Knockholt; third and final meeting of Berkeley Street Liaison Officers with list of Liaison Officers who received Diplomatic and Commercial reports from GCCS; report from HC Kenworthy to Secretary YC on numbers of sets and operators at FO/GPO Sigint stations in UK; list of broken and outstanding E keys for Sept/Oct; letter from Wing Cdr Jones to AD (S) on lax security associated with Operation Torch, Sigint support for Operation Torch in Med, Met Section to start night shifts from Nov 2; EWT to C giving draft letter to D's of I on security of E and the need to know concept; Oct 26 comments by EWT and AD (S) on paper of Oct 16 by DDMI (O) Brigadier CS Vale on future of Services' Sigint, reply from Vale Oct 28; list of all material passed direct to C by Hut 3; evaluation of new Marconi receiver; contents of Murder Bag of working aids for 381 WU Tunisia Oct 27; BP to prepare index of all foreign codes and cyphers for international use; list of known F/Snowdrop German groups in West; tactical use of E in ME, value of Gibraltar E intercept; instructions for RAF computors detached for shipborne Sigint collection; UK DF policy, figures of merit for DF stations, training plan for W/T operators for DF Exchange, UK DF station indicators and form of results message; liaison with US War and Navy Departments, signals between EWT and Bayly of BSC in New York, letters between AGD and Major Stevens in Washington, Stevens includes family tree of War Department Sigint organisation Oct 27, signal from Capt Hastings in Washington to C; correspondence with AM and WO, Col Crankshaw in Moscow, Shaw in Kilindini, Melbourne, UK Sigint authority in Mauritius, GOC-in-C West Africa and 371 WU Freetown; WO return of overseas Sigint positions; AM paper on Sigint support for future combined operations and lessons learned from the Dieppe raid with comments by AW Bonsall of AS present at HQ 11 Group during the raid; further interrogation of German Signals' POW; liaison between RSS at Barnet and BP W/T I Section; analysis of check bearings taken on commercial stations at Sutton Valence; Spanish diplomatic message from Washington concerning FBI violation of diplomatic bags; BP EP ZIP/ZTPGM/2657 from DO Hut 3 to C Axis operations in Black and Caspian Seas, CX/MSS/S/27 of Oct 23 German consumption unit of fuel, CX/MSS/1580/T3 Germans aware of Allied battle plans in ME and Med Oct 24, SALU weekly report on Russian Front activity, SDE/TS3 of Oct 28 activity of West German Experimental Group, CX/MSS/S 29 Salonika-Piraeus railway carries German military supplies to Libya, AM report on Kesselring's intentions against Malta, lecture on use of R/T by GAF bombers during training

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