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Catalogue description Government Code and Cypher School: Combined Bureau Middle East (CBME): Records
| Reference: | HW 51 |
|---|---|
| Title: | Government Code and Cypher School: Combined Bureau Middle East (CBME): Records |
| Description: |
This series contains surviving records of the Combined Bureau Middle East. |
| Date: | 1940-1944 |
| Related material: |
Policy papers on the history of CBME are in HW 14 |
| Held by: | The National Archives, Kew |
| Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
| Language: | English |
| Creator: |
Government Code and Cypher School, Combined Bureau Middle East, 1940-1945 |
| Physical description: | 93 file(s) |
| Access conditions: | Open |
| Immediate source of acquisition: |
In 2003 Government Communications Headquarters |
| Selection and destruction information: | Selected under Acquisition Policy criterion 2.2.1.3, documenting the work of the CBME. All surviving records retained. |
| Accruals: | Series is accruing |
| Administrative / biographical background: |
The Combined Bureau Middle East (CBME) was established in late 1940 at Heliopolis near Cairo in Egypt as the signals intelligence centre for the Middle East. It comprised army, air force and naval staff working on signals intelligence, and continued until March 1943. |
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