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Falklands/JIC: GCHQ London signal to GCHQ Cheltenham (2032Z) ("Special JIC Sunday 4 April") ["little to show for this two-hour meeting in way of output"; Tovey strongly supporting JIC chair in demanding that Rowlands be summoned before Secretary of the Cabinet for revealing past SIGINT success against Argentina] [declassified May 2023]

Document type: Declassified documents
Source: HW92/15 f20
Editorial comments:

Brian Tovey was Director of GCHQ and evidently the author of this signal. There was no minuted meeting of the JIC on Sunday 4 April.

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Importance ranking: Major
Word count: 3pp
Themes: Labour Party & socialism, Executive, Defence (Falklands), Security services & intelligence