Catalogue description Government Code and Cypher School: Diplomatic Section: Diplomatic Decrypts Passed to the Secret Intelligence Service for Distribution

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Title: Government Code and Cypher School: Diplomatic Section: Diplomatic Decrypts Passed to the Secret Intelligence Service for Distribution
Description:

The records in this series consist of a number of decrypts of diplomatic wireless traffic passed to the Director General of the Secret Intelligence Service for distribution. The records appear to be the RES (Reserved) series of BJ decrypts or, alternatively, the original decrypts from which the RES series was derived. The series contains decrypts of Secret Service and Foreign Office communications.
Date: 1935-1945
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: Unlike most other series of reports issued from GC&GS during the war this series did not have any original departmental code
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English and German
Creator:

Government Code and Cypher School, Diplomatic Section, 1919-1946
Physical description: 4 file(s)
Access conditions: Open
Custodial history: These records were passed to the Government Communications Headquarters when it succeeded the Government Code and Cypher School in 1946.
Accumulation dates: 1937 to 1946
Selection and destruction information: All surviving reports have been selected for permanent preservation. All Government Code and Cypher School material from the Second World War is selected without review, under section 2.2.1.3 of the PRO acquisition policy.
Accruals: No future accruals expected
Administrative / biographical background:

The Diplomatic Section was responsible for decyphering intercepted diplomatic wireless messages before and during the Second World War.

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