Describe the organisation and work of the people at Bletchley Park.
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A.D. Kieran Williams July 2003 Describe the organisation and work of the people at Bletchley Park Bletchley Park is a large manor house, about fifty miles north of London. It was chosen to be an evacuation base for MI6, and the GCCS (Government Code and Cypher School). WWI had brought about the use of wireless messages and Morse code for the first time. As WWII was approaching, the British Government wanted to be able to decode all of the enemy's messages. The codename for the new centre was Station X. In 1939, there were less than a hundred people working there, but by 1944, the number had gone up to over 7,000. A lot of thought went into the organisation of Bletchley Park. There were two main sections for the first people that worked there. There was the administration section, which consisted of mostly young women between the...


