Staff recruitment, selection and pay; WRNS postings, WRNS to discontinue term Station...

HW 14/57

1942 Nov 1-10

Staff recruitment, selection and pay; WRNS postings, WRNS to discontinue term Station X for BP, to be designated HMS Pembroke V from Nov 15, requisitioning of house in Adstock, Winslow, Bucks for Wrens, details of initial inspection; Hut 6 plans for distribution of standard and high speed Bombes at Gayhurst, Wavendon, Stanmore and Hut 11, Hut 6 machine statistics for period Sept 20-Nov 7, DR tally for week ending Nov 7, Hut 7 Machine Room building programme and staffing proceeding according to plan Nov 2, F traffic intercepts for Oct 30/31; minutes of BPCC meeting, routing of Sigint traffic from BP to ME, support for Sigint unit at Algiers, C orders committee to be formed under Chairmanship Chairman Y Committee to regulate outgoing traffic from BP, adverse comments from AD (S) on composition of committee; minutes of Heads of Sections' meeting at Berkeley Street, minutes of DF Coordinating Party; Oct DF figures of merit for UK DF stations, table of DF results June-Sept, overseas DF on non-morse comms, training visit to BP for WOYG personnel from DF Exchange at Beaumanor; telephone directory for AS with posts, AS report on Research and Exploitation Oct 16-31, table giving details of all F traffic received in AS Oct 16-31, bomber BMP report, AS fire watching duties; minute from new SOA S/L Beynon to all sections requesting details of all RAF, WAAF and AM personnel at BP, another minute on office furniture and fittings; Jaffa intercept comparisons for 3 UK stations Oct 31-Nov 4; paper from EWT to Lt Col Lithgow of 6 IS on log readers and E knowledge; Hut 3L Report No 1 on intelligence liaison with cryptography, interception and W/T I; BP expecting hostilities in Iraq and Caucasus in 1943, EWT asks WO and AM what plans they have for Sigint collection in Persia and surrounding areas; Home Guard parades at BP; visit to BP by VCIGS Nov 5; FO bid to acquire Professor Vincent from BP for PWE's Italian Section; respective Sigint roles of MI-8 and GCCS; police cover at WOYG; Tunny processing; use of tactical Sigint in ME; liaison with US, signal from C to Washington on special arrangements made to supply Eisenhower's HQ and Allied Task Force in Med with Sigint, letters exchanged between Major Stevens UK Sigint representative in Washington and EWT, AGD, HAS and Col Tiltman, exchanges between EWT and Bayly of BSC in New York and between EWT and Capt Hastings in Washington, liaison with War and Navy Departments, letter from AGD to Kendrick in Ottawa, US Army Sigs Corps Lt Col sends package of Sigint working aids from BP to Washington for US Sigint courses; correspondence with CBME, also with 351 WU Gibraltar, more intercept positions there, Sigint support for Allied HQ at Gibraltar; liaison with WO and AM, with Colonel Crankshaw in Moscow, Shaw in Kilindini and with Melbourne; AM report on German Sigint organisation; CO's List giving all Cheadle personnel cleared for E; collateral report on German military comms in France; PM orders words aeroplane and aerodrome to be replaced by aircraft and airfield; results of interrogation of British Captain who interrogated German Sigint officer when reference was made to possible exploitation of E; BP EP, CX/MSS/S31 recent symptoms of shortage in German manpower, SDE/TS 4 German HF jamming tests, SDE/TS 5 German experimental unit in VHF reception trials at Bergen Holland and Calais

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