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APPENDIX 2 555<br />

11 Oct. 1957 Jodrell Bank, the first radiotelescope, is<br />

completed and is also used for sigint<br />

1 Nov. 1957 Captain Robert Stannard RN becomes Director<br />

of LCSA. taking over from William Penney<br />

21 Aug. 1958 The RAF's sigint unit, 192 Squadron, is renumbered<br />

as 51 Squadron<br />

2 Sept. 1958 US Sigint C-l30A Hercules shot down over<br />

1958<br />

1958<br />

1959<br />

May 1959<br />

3 Jun. 1959<br />

1 Sept. 1959<br />

12 Nov. 1959<br />

1 May 1960<br />

1960<br />

Sept. 1960<br />

Dec. 1960<br />

1961<br />

1961<br />

Nov. 1961<br />

1962<br />

Armenia with loss of seventeen crew<br />

Berlin tunnel translators move from SIS to<br />

GCHQ as London Processing Group<br />

Comet sigint aircraft enter service with 51<br />

Squadron<br />

1 Special Wireless Regiment renamed 13<br />

Signals Regiment<br />

RAF Habbaniya in Iraq closed and sigint<br />

personnel moved to Cyprus<br />

One of 51 Squadron's new Comets destroyed<br />

by fire<br />

2 Wireless Regiment at Ayios Nikolaos<br />

renamed 9 Signals Regiment<br />

The first dedicated US sigint-gathering ship,<br />

USS Oxford, is authorised<br />

Shooting down of Gary Powers' U-2 spy<br />

plane<br />

Clive Loehnis becomes Director of GCHQ,<br />

taking over from Eric Jones<br />

Joe Hooper introduces joint sigint equipment<br />

purchase with services<br />

Templer Report on integration of service interception<br />

George Blake arrested and early compromise of<br />

Berlin tunnel realised<br />

Collection begins from Teufelsberg in Berlin<br />

operating out of ASA vans<br />

Project Sandra receives Treasury approval<br />

Perkar sigint site on Ceylon closed

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