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How Scarborough saved the world

GCHQ's Scarborough station and its role in WW2, the Cold War and the Cuban Missile Crisis.

The work of GCHQ started just after the end of World War One as telegraph became a vital means of military communications. We hear from people who worked at the listening station in the Yorkshire seaside resort of Scarborough during World War Two and the Cold War. ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ security correspondent Gordon Corera reveals how Government Communications Headquarters – GCHQ - has been listening in for 100 years.

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