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Catalogue description Government Code and Cypher School and Government Communications Headquarters: London Communications Security Agency and predecessors: Comsec Editing of Winston Churchill's 'The Second World War'
| Reference: | HW 71 |
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| Title: | Government Code and Cypher School and Government Communications Headquarters: London Communications Security Agency and predecessors: Comsec Editing of Winston Churchill's 'The Second World War' |
| Description: |
This series consists of telegrams originating in Government Code and Cypher School (GC&CS) during the Second World War and quoted by Churchill in his history of the War, which were edited prior to publication by Monty Davenport of the Communications Electronic Security Department to protect the original British cypher in which they had been encoded. |
| Date: | 1944-1954 |
| Arrangement: |
The telegrams are in original date order, with both the original unedited version and the final published version. |
| Held by: | The National Archives, Kew |
| Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
| Language: | English |
| Creator: |
Government Code and Cypher School, 1919-1946 Government Communications Headquarters, Communications-Electronic Security Group, L Division, 1946-1969 London Communications Security Agency, 1954-1965 |
| Physical description: | 1 file(s) |
| Access conditions: | Open |
| Immediate source of acquisition: |
in 2004 Government Communications Headquarters |
| Accruals: | Series is not accruing |
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