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Revision as of 15:29, 17 June 2013
Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) is a British signals intelligence (sigint) agency.
People
Directors
- Sir Edward Travis - 1944-1952
- Sir Eric Jones - 1952-1960
- Sir Clive Loehnis - 1960-64
- Sir Leonard Hooper - 1965-1973
- Sir Arthur Bonsall - 1973-1978
- Sir Brian Tovey - 1978-1983
- Sir Peter Marychurch - 1983-1989
- Sir John Adye - 1989-1996
- Sir David Omand - 1996-1997
- Sir Kevin Tebbit - 1998
- Sir Francis Richards - 1998-2003
- Sir David Pepper - 2003-2008
- Sir Iain Lobban - 2008-
Website
External resources
- Nick Hopkins, UK gathering secret intelligence via covert NSA operation, guardian.co.uk, 7 June 2013.
- Richard Norton-Taylor, Intelligence-gathering by British state out of control, guardian.co.uk, 11 June 2013.
- Ewen MacAskill, Nick Davies, Nick Hopkins, Julian Borger and James Ball, GCHQ intercepted foreign politicians' communications at G20 summits, The Guardian, 17 June 2013.
