Agency honours linguists, including many women, who eavesdropped and decoded in secret locations
The spy agency GCHQ is celebrating its centenary on Friday by highlighting little-known wartime eavesdropping and decoding work that took place in five secret locations around the country, from the Kent cliffs to the Derbyshire countryside.
That includes the dangerous work undertaken daily by about 50 linguists, many of whom were women, who listened into shortwave German naval and airforce radio at Abbots Cliff House near Dover, a site exposed to enemy attack.
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