GCHQ
Proper noun
Meaning
GCHQ
Initialism of Government Communications Headquarters.
Examples
A GCHQ mathematician said at the time that the fact that the contents had been restricted for some 70 years demonstrated their importance. citation Turing had something of a reputation for eccentricity at Bletchley Park.
Aldrich, 2010, p. 521 GCHQ gains its intelligence by monitoring a wide variety of communications and other electronic signals.
The heads of GCHQ, the UK government’s signal intelligence agency, have also found lucrative positions in the private cyber sector after leaving the service.
GCHQ (former Composite Signals Organisation) have a site in the west of Scarborough.
A new head of the National Cyber Security Centre (part of GCHQ) is due to be appointed over the summer.
Chiefs of MI5 and GCHQ have also gained from oil and gas companies.