GCHQ

English

Proper noun

GCHQ

1. Initialism of Government Communications Headquarters.
   • 2013, Ravi Gupta, Hugh Brooks, Using Social Media for Global Security, page 190:

     For the challenge, GCHQ posted a code at www.canyoucrackit.co.uk and invited British citizens to solve it. The code consisted of 160 letters and numbers arranged in a rectangular display.

   • [2018, Carl Miller, chapter 6, in The Death of the Gods […] , William Heinemann, →ISBN:

     I was inside Government Communications Headquarters, invariably called GCHQ. It's the UK's technical spy agency, only admitted to exist by the government in 1994.]

See also

• MI6
• MI5
• SIS
• SBS
• SAS