AS comments to ACAS (I) on AM draft scheme for RAF centralised admin at BP Dec 12,...

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1942 Dec 11-20

AS comments to ACAS (I) on AM draft scheme for RAF centralised admin at BP Dec 12, letter to ACAS (I) from EWT Dec 15 on draft charter for RAF station at BP, EWT asks for delay in promoting Wing Cdr Jones to Group Captain as it would be unfair to civilian Head of AS JES Cooper, Jones was already being paid at almost double the salary of Welchman, civilian Head of Hut 6, without whom there would be no job for Jones, revised draft plan from ACAS (I) Dec 17; functions of AS sub-sections and list of report series issued Dec 20, pay rates for AS civilians, letter from AS to DDI (4) with extracts from letter from F/O Stacey in Algiers, letter from HAS to DDI 4 on AS staff shortages, flow chart by AW Bonsall showing passage of all outside sources of traffic to AS and details of certain posts in AS, HAS asks for special dispensation for AW Bonsall, who because of pressure of work had recently failed to attend any Home Guard parades, memo from Gp Capt Cadell DDI 4 to DDI 3 at AM expressing disquiet with tasking by them of SALU with research subjects over 2 years old, wishes situation to be tightened up with HAS, log reading in AS of other than E - replies to Lt Col Sayer from AS and 4 IS; BP staff selection and clearances; investigation into careless talk incident Dec 14; follow-up action Dec 14 to minutes of 6th meeting of BPCC; NS asks for AS reinforcements if it is to continue to provide Dunstable with Axis weather information, Dec 20; Xmas leave arrangements, no travel Dec 21-29; paper by Wing Cdr Jones on functions of Section 3L; M/S letter from FL Lucas to AD (S) on future policy for 3G and IE sections, counters criticism and offers to resign Dec 16; AD (S) to EWT asking to drop term "from usual source" to describe Sigint and the need for special handling; instructions for sending signals from BP to Cairo, Algiers, Gibraltar and shipborne Sigint teams, with list of Service Sigint and other personalities at major establishments in ME, Dec 11; two US Army privates to arrive BP for Sigint training Dec 15, list of all 7 US military personnel working at BP as at Dec 12; list of all Central Party personnel with 65 additional personnel now cleared for E; list of all E keys typed in GBR Dec 12-21 together with destinations; 6 IS log-reading services; BP paper on extent of W/T I on German Army Russian Front networks; Cdr Saunders to Lt Col Sayer on SICUs Dec 19, Sayer's reply Dec 20; AD (S) to C Dec 16 on Darlan traffic on French North African comms; AD (S) sends French Resistance decodes to MI-6 Dec 18; complaint to Lt Col Sayer from AGE Saunders heading slip-readers at Aldford House about poor quality of Knockholt non-morse intercept; RSS informs BP of its interest in Berlin to Dublin comms link Dec 17; AD (S) asks sections for comments on effects of installing new transformer on Dec 15, AS replies little effect; 4 IS listing of all ISSIS Sigint Course students as at Dec 3 with comments on grades and future employment; Lt Col Tiltman writes to MI-8 on shortage of MT drivers at BP Dec 15; list of UK Sigint receivers showing gaps in low frequency coverage; NIB requests BP help to identify callsigns on unidentified signal nicknamed See-Saw appearing on various HF frequencies, BP identifies them as GAF; Turks photograph German AF code book, sent to Cairo en route to UK Dec 15; paper by CE Wyn Williams on possibility of help from ARL on Cobra and other related machine processing projects Dec 20; exchanges between EWT and Bayly of BSC NY and Capt Hastings in Washington, liaison with US War and Navy Departments, BP sends Shark German submarine keys to US for period Dec 5-8 on Dec 13/14, OP-20-GY of Navy Dept forwards list of captured Japanese weather documents to BP Dec 16; background to Lt Col Bicher's US Army Sigint organisation in UK, Capt Sawdon and Lt Cols Pritchard and Sayer of BP express disquiet at release of E information to Bicher and doubt Bicher's ability to work E and W/T I, agreed that 6 IS officers should lecture on Bicher's Sigint courses; letters to Lt Col Tiltman and AGD from Major Stevens in Washington, letter from FA Kendrick to AGD, Kendrick to visit NY week before Xmas to see Tiltman who would then be visiting the US, letter from Lt Cdr Dudley Smith visiting Washington to Cdr Saunders at BP on Type X; correspondence with CBME, Director CBME sends list of all Type X in ME to Cdr Saunders Dec 16, outlook for deployment of Allied Sigint units in ME Dec 13, liaison with Gibraltar, Algiers, Stacey returning to BP from Algiers via Gibraltar Dec 17; liaison with Col Crankshaw in Moscow, Shaw in Kilindini, India (IWIS), with French in Algeria and Morocco and with AM and WO; UK DF network, agenda for 4th meeting od DF Coordinating Party to be held at Broadway Buildings Dec 23; JIC ME estimates of Axis strength in ME; DDMI (O) to MI-8 on Col Scott's return from ME to Algiers and questions awaiting him on future of Sigint in ME and reorganisation of Army Sigint Dec 14, BP questions for Scott on future ME Sigint policy; BP reports, ZIP/ZTPG/92595 and 92699 of Dec 12 both sent from DO Hut 3 to C, Bordeaux reports to Marseille that following landing of the English sabotage party on southern bank of the Gironde on Dec 8 four ships in Bordeaux harbour were sabotaged on Dec 12, CX/MSS/MAPS 1-6 published between Sept 30 and Dec 18 illustrating changing Axis battle positions in Egypt based on interception of German grid positions, AS report of Dec 12 on German Met Service, DL Page of ISOS provides EWT with history of Axis ME spy Hamada, alias Hamlet, July-Sept, culminating in his arrest and imprisonment

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