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MetroGuardian
October 22nd, 2007, 05:22 PM
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GCHQ Government Communications Headquarters
http://www.globalsecurity.org/intell/world/uk/gchq.htm

GCHQ is a Civil Service Department under the Ministerial responsibility of the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs. GCHQ provides Government Departments and Military Commands with signals intelligence (Sigint) in accordance with requirements laid upon it by the JIC (as for SIS) in support of HMG's security, defence, foreign and economic policies.

At the end of the Cold War some 6,000 people worked for GCHQ, with the total staff having declined to some to 4,500 by 1997. GCHQ's annual budget is in the neighborhood of £400M-£500M.