Government Communications Headquarters

'The Doughnut', the GCHQ building at Benhall, Cheltenham.

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

http://www.gchq.gov.uk/

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.