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...headquarters of Britain's electronic intelligence empire is a sprawling compound at Cheltenham, 95 miles northwest of London and nestled among the scenic hills of Gloucestershire. Known in the trade as GCHQ (for Government Communications Headquarters), the facility receives and analyzes data from a worldwide system of spy bases, ships, planes and satellites. It operates round the clock and employs some 10,000 staffers round the globe. Cheltenham is a vital part of the West's constant effort to break the Soviet Union's military and diplomatic codes. Now there is a distinct possibility that GCHQ...
...with, among other things, the passing on of secret codes or documents to a potential enemy. A Russian-language specialist, Prime had worked at GCHQ from 1968 to 1977. He then left voluntarily and subsequently held jobs as a taxi driver and a wine salesman in the town of Cheltenham. At the time of his charging a fortnight ago, he was unemployed. His trial is scheduled to begin in November...
Britain would not be the only country affected by a breach of GCHQ security. The Cheltenham facility is part of a four-nation intelligence net that also includes the U.S., Canada and Australia. GCHQ shares its cryptographic expertise with Washington's top-secret National Security Agency (NSA), an organization that gathers intelligence based on electronic eavesdropping. In return, the NSA passes on some of its intelligence and provides technical assistance. Moreover, the U.S. maintains spy bases in Britain whose data are processed at GCHQ, and Cray I, the complicated computer that does most of Cheltenham's decoding...
...through his wisdom and courage that nothing is more important than the attainment of peace-not tradition, not pride, not even life itself. I will always feel that the world has lost a man who may have changed the meaning of life for all of us. Barbra Christodoulidis Cheltenham...
Meantime, in an unaccustomed position just outside the direct center of attention, the Prince of Wales looked on, watching his intended turn the crowd to putty. Hers was an adept, admirable performance on an occasion of mundane princely politesse. Charles had come down to Cheltenham to meet the local constabulary, who keep an eye on the country house, Highgrove, where he and Lady Diana will spend what time they can manage away from the royal routine. "I couldn't have married anyone the British people wouldn't have liked," he said last month. That statement will now want...