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In article <715092656.11378@minster.york.ac.uk> martin@minster.york.ac.uk writes:
>segr@nessie.mcc.ac.uk (Simon Read) says:
>> Subject: GCHQ's location.
>>
>> No big secret!
>>
>> GCHQ is near Cheltenham. It's an enormous group of buildings,
>> shouldn't be hard to find. I think there are even signposts.
>
>Actually it isn't all that long ago (approx 7 years?) that the UK
>government refused to officially acknowledge that this `enormous group
>of buildings' existed, let alone say what they were for!  A fact that,
>I believe, caused great amusement to people who lived in Cheltenham and
>saw it every day!!!

	This pales in comparison to that legendary statement in
	the "Spycatcher" trial when the U.K. attorney-general admitted
	that although Sir Martin Hollis hade been head of MI6 "it did
	not mean that the organization existed before he was director-
	general or that it existed after he retired from the position."
	(I paraphrase).

	While we're on the subject, is Stella Rimington really Margaret
	Thatchers' evil twin?

	Alec.