Catalogue description Government Code and Cypher School: Hut 3: Intelligence Reports on German Plans for the Sea-born Invasion of Britain (Operation Smith/Sea Lion)

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Title: Government Code and Cypher School: Hut 3: Intelligence Reports on German Plans for the Sea-born Invasion of Britain (Operation Smith/Sea Lion)
Description:

This series contains intelligence reports derived from intercepted decrypted German messages concerning German plans for the sea-born invasion of Britain.
Date: 1940-1941
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Government Code and Cypher School, Hut 3, 1939-1946
Physical description: 1 bundle(s)
Access conditions: Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated
Immediate source of acquisition:

Government Communications Headquarters
Accumulation dates: Series ran 1940-1941
Selection and destruction information: Selected under Acquisition Policy criterion 2.2.1.3, showing the state of British awareness of plans for Operation Sea Lion from intelligence derived from intercepted and deciphered enemy communications. All surviving records selected.
Administrative / biographical background:

Hut 3 was the main Government Code and Cypher School reporting section tasked with translating and then compiling intelligence reports on all German Army and Air Force Enigma traffic decyphered by Hut 6. The section retained its 'Hut 3' name even after it moved out of the original Hut 3 at Bletchley Park.

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