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listening station

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listening station [′lis·ən·iŋ ‚stā·shən]
(engineering)
A radio or radar receiving station that is continuously manned for various purposes, such as for radio direction finding or for gaining information about enemy electronic devices.


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Margaret, now 85, was first an interceptor of secret German code traffic at what is now Menwith Hill listening station near Harrogate before going to Bletchley Park Experts say the world-famous Ultra Secret project, using captured Nazi Enigma cypher code machines, played a major part in winning the war.
Sir Peter Gibson, the Intelligence Services Commissioner, said he had found no evidence to back up allegations the Government's listening station GCHQ intercepted information that could have prevented the 1998 atrocity.
Relatives of those killed and injured in the 1998 atrocity have also demanded full disclosure of the new evidence from GCHQ, Britain's secretive listening station at Cheltenham.
 
 
 
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