Catalogue description Government Communications Headquarters and predecessor: Soviet Bloc reports

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Reference: HW 75
Title: Government Communications Headquarters and predecessor: Soviet Bloc reports
Description:

This series covers GCHQ reports on the Soviet Bloc countries issued during the period 1945-1950 inclusive. The countries included in this series are Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Soviet Union (USSR), and Yugoslavia.

The reports cover the following: military, economic, state security and police. Some of the reports reflect the changes and upheaval in Europe following the Second World War including the establishment of communist regimes in a number of countries.

Reports whose serial number is preceded by 'T' are straight translations with analyst comments added, whereas reports whose serial number is preceded by 'C' are reports composed by the analyst from available information.

Date: 1945-1950
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Government Code and Cypher School, 1919-1946

Government Communications Headquarters, 1946-

Physical description: 534 file(s)
Access conditions: Open unless otherwise stated
Immediate source of acquisition:

From 2007 Government Communications Headquarters

Selection and destruction information: Selected under acquisition policy criterion 3.1.2, and according to paragraph 6.1.1 of OSP 28
Accruals: Series is accruing

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