RSGB 2022 Convention: Stoking Bletchley - The story of the Y Services 1939-1945

Dr David Abrutat
Bletchley Park was the home of the Government Code & Cypher School (GC&CS) during the Second World War, beginning as a small cryptanalytic centre, working closely with the Y service (Army, Navy and RAF) interception sites around Britain and overseas. Bletchley quickly expanded to become an industrial scale producer of signals intelligence (SIGINT), and the Y services were one of its core providers of intercept. It is a poorly understood area of SIGINT history but a significant aspect of Bletchley's success.
After serving in the Military in the 1990s as a Royal Marines Commando and RAF Officer, David Abrutat joined GCHQ in Cheltenham in 2002. He has long had a passionate interest in World War Two Military History and is a Council member of the Royal Marines Historical Society (RMHS). He is a published author on military and intelligence services history and became the Departmental Historian at GCHQ in 2019. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society & Royal Geographic Society.

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Nice info on Y stations. I have had to look into them from kryptos sculpture. Station X, Alexander Y station, typex, camp X, Hydra radio. Agent X, X Corp, ect.. Ghost stations, Ghost whisperers, Ghost army. A rich history.
Thank you for sharing the video.