Catalogue description Government Code and Cypher School: Diplomatic Section: Reports of German Diplomatic Messages (GERDI, IR and OTP Reports)
Reference: | HW 36 |
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Title: | Government Code and Cypher School: Diplomatic Section: Reports of German Diplomatic Messages (GERDI, IR and OTP Reports) |
Description: |
Reports of German diplomatic messages decyphered by the Diplomatic Section. GERDI (German Diplomatic) reports contain general diplomatic intelligence and agent material. IR (Ireland) reports contain messages between the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Berlin and the German legation in Dublin. |
Date: | 1942-1943 |
Held by: | The National Archives, Kew |
Former reference in its original department: | GERDI, IR and OTP reports |
Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
Language: | English and German |
Creator: |
Government Code and Cypher School, Diplomatic Section, 1919-1946 |
Physical description: | 7 files and volumes |
Access conditions: | Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated |
Immediate source of acquisition: |
from 2001 Government Communications Headquarters |
Custodial history: | These records were passed to the Government Communications Headquarters when it succeeded the Government Code and Cypher School in 1946. |
Accumulation dates: | 1942 to 1945 |
Selection and destruction information: | All surviving reports have been selected for permanent preservation, though a large number of IR reports, and all except one OTP German diplomatic report, have not survived. 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: |
Diplomatic Section was responsible for decyphering intercepted diplomatic wireless messages during the Second World War. |
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