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Catalogue description Government Code and Cypher School, Foreign Office and General Post Office: Maintenance of Foreign Office Intercept (Y) Stations: Correspondence
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| Title: | Government Code and Cypher School, Foreign Office and General Post Office: Maintenance of Foreign Office Intercept (Y) Stations: Correspondence |
| Description: |
This series contains records of the Foreign Office, the General Post Office and the Government Code and Cypher School relating to work during the Second World War to establish and maintain Foreign Office intercept (Y) stations. |
| Date: | 1941-1945 |
| Held by: | The National Archives, Kew |
| Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
| Language: | English |
| Creator: |
Foreign Office, 1782-1968 General Post Office, 1660-1969 Government Code and Cypher School, 1919-1946 |
| Physical description: | 6 volume(s) |
| Access conditions: | Open |
| Immediate source of acquisition: |
From 2004 Government Communications Headquarters |
| Custodial history: | Records relating to the maintenance of Foreign Office Y stations held by the FO and the GPO were passed into the custody of GC&CS, later GCHQ, for security reasons during and after the Second World War. |
| Selection and destruction information: | Records selected under Acquisition Policy criterion 2.2.1.3, documenting the work to repair and maintain Foreign Office intercept (Y) stations during the Second World War. All remaining records selected. |
| Accruals: | Series is accruing |
| Administrative / biographical background: |
The Foreign Office maintained a number of wireless intercept (Y) stations at various strategic locations overseas in the years before the start of the Second World War. These stations, manned by FO staff, worked from 1938 to priorities established by the inter-departmental Y Committee, rather than by the FO. FO staff also did some traffic analysis and evaluation work overseas under GC&CS direction. |
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