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  • initialism Government Communications Headquarters, a British intelligence agency.

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Examples

  • It's a pity, then, that GCHQ is short of ethnic-minority staff who can actually eavesdrop on, for example, suspected terrorists.

    Michael Gove wears dunce cap over UK school buildings list fiasco 2010

  • The NSA and its British counterpart, known as GCHQ, are so closely aligned they divide up "target" countries between them.

    Periscope 2007

  • And certainly, one of the things that GCHQ, which is our version, if you like, of your NSA, has been trying to intercept a lot of communications, certainly around some of the key people under surveillance.

    CNN Transcript Jul 29, 2005 2005

  • Mr Hague is responsible for the Secret Intelligence Service, MI6 and GCHQ, which is the electronic "listening" agency.

    BBC News - Home 2011

  • Government Communications Headquarters, known as GCHQ, run in close collaboration with the National Security Agency in the United States.

    NYT > Home Page By JOHN F. BURNS 2012

  • While not naming individual states, GCHQ, which is responsible for cyber defence, has been concerned for some time that states such as China and Russia are unlikely to use conventional or nuclear weapons in an attack on Britain and are more likely to attempt to shut down essential systems used to run the country.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010

  • While not naming individual states, GCHQ, which is responsible for cyber defence, has been concerned for some time that states such as China and Russia are unlikely to use conventional or nuclear weapons in an attack on Britain and are more likely to attempt to shut down essential systems used to run the country.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010

  • While not naming individual states, GCHQ, which is responsible for cyber defence, has been concerned for some time that states such as China and Russia are unlikely to use conventional or nuclear weapons in an attack on Britain and are more likely to attempt to shut down essential systems used to run the country.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010

  • Photo: Model of Britain's famed secret eavesdropping facility known as GCHQ (Government Communications Headquarters).

    Packet Storm Security Headlines 2010

  • While not naming individual states, GCHQ, which is responsible for cyber defence, has been concerned for some time that states such as China and Russia are unlikely to use conventional or nuclear weapons in an attack on Britain and are more likely to attempt to shut down essential systems used to run the country.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010

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