Catalogue description Government Code and Cypher School: Weekly Reports

Reports made on a weekly basis of the activities of the following Huts at the Government Code and Cypher School at Bletchley Park:

• Hut 3 - This hut housed the main reporting section, they translated and compiled the intelligence reports.
• Hut 6 - This Hut was the one housing the Enigma processing machinery for German Army and Air Force messages, which were then passed to Hut 3 for translation and reporting.
• Hut 8 - This Hut was the naval equivalent of Hut 6, and processed Enigma messages produced by the German Navy, which were passed to Hut 4 for translation and reporting.
• Block C - Hollerith Machine Tabulating Section under Fredric Freeborn (moved from Hut 7).
• Naval Section - passed intelligence and traffic analysis to the Admiralty.
• Cryptographic Co-ordination and Records Section.

Other weekly reports are in HW 56 (Air Section) and HW 78 (Research Section):

HW 56

HW 78

Government Code and Cypher School, 1919-1946

from 2007 Government Communications Headquarters