Government Communications Headquarters
Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) is a British signals intelligence (sigint) agency.
Contents
Personnel and Organisation
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-
SIGINT Missions
According to a diagram of GCHQ's 1998 organisation in Richard Aldrich's book on the agency, SIGINT Missions was one of four major divisions of its work under the corporate board.[1] it encompassed:
- Maths and Cryptanalysis.
- IT and Computer Services.
- Linguists and Translation.
- Intelligence Analysis Unit & Open Source Joint Working Group.[1]
Enterprise
According to Aldrich, Enterprise was a major division of GCHQ's 1998 organisation under the corporate board.[1] It included:
- Applied Research and Emerging Technologies.
- Corporate Knowledge and Information Services.
- Commercial Supplier Relationships.[1]
- Biometrics.
Corporate Management
According to Aldrich, Corporate management was a major division of GCHQ's 1998 organisation under the corporate board.[1] It encompassed:
- Enterprise Resource Planning System.
- Human Resources (Broadreach).
- Internal audit.
- SINEWS Architecture Team.[1]
Communications-Electronics Security Group
According to Aldrich, the Communications-Electronic Security Group was a major division of GCHQ's 1998 organisation under the corporate board.[1]
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.
