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- From: jac54@cas.org ()
- Subject: Re: GCHQ's location. No big secret!
- Message-ID: <1992Aug31.105853.17069@cas.org>
- Sender: Alec Chambers
- Organization: Chemical Abstracts Service, Columbus, Ohio
- References: <715092656.11378@minster.york.ac.uk>
- Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 10:58:53 GMT
- Lines: 26
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- In article <715092656.11378@minster.york.ac.uk> martin@minster.york.ac.uk writes:
- >segr@nessie.mcc.ac.uk (Simon Read) says:
- >> Subject: GCHQ's location.
- >>
- >> No big secret!
- >>
- >> GCHQ is near Cheltenham. It's an enormous group of buildings,
- >> shouldn't be hard to find. I think there are even signposts.
- >
- >Actually it isn't all that long ago (approx 7 years?) that the UK
- >government refused to officially acknowledge that this `enormous group
- >of buildings' existed, let alone say what they were for! A fact that,
- >I believe, caused great amusement to people who lived in Cheltenham and
- >saw it every day!!!
-
- This pales in comparison to that legendary statement in
- the "Spycatcher" trial when the U.K. attorney-general admitted
- that although Sir Martin Hollis hade been head of MI6 "it did
- not mean that the organization existed before he was director-
- general or that it existed after he retired from the position."
- (I paraphrase).
-
- While we're on the subject, is Stella Rimington really Margaret
- Thatchers' evil twin?
-
- Alec.
-