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Falklands/JIC: GCHQ London signal to GCHQ Cheltenham (1730Z) ("From Director for circulation") [tells of "immensely high regard" for SIGINT in present crisis; War Cabinet 24 Apr from PM down spoke "in glowing terms"; CDS "what SIGINT is producing is 500 percent marvellous" (sic); DGI said SIGINT "virtually the only hard operational intelligence we have"; Tovey's pride at GCHQ's achievement] [declassified May 2023]

Document type: Declassified documents
Source: HW92/17 f33
Editorial comments:

Brian Tovey was Director of GCHQ and evidently the author of this signal.

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Importance ranking: Major
Word count: 2pp
Themes: Executive, Defence (Falklands), Falklands War Cabinet papers, Security services & intelligence