Britain's GCHQ Celebrate 100 Years

Daily Mail: A century of protecting Britain: How GCHQ has evolved from a naval intelligence office in Whitehall to a world-beating surveillance operation

* GCHQ was founded on November 1, 1919 when the government combined two rival intelligence bodies
* The Admiralty's Room 40 and the War Office's MI1(b) were merged in the Government Code & Cypher School
* The Queen has been receiving GCHQ intelligence briefings for longer than anyone else in the world
* The organisation was not publicly acknowledged until 1983 when the government admitted its existence

Rapid changes in technology are posing 'unique challenges' to the security services which will face 'enormous complexity' in the future, the boss of GCHQ has said.

Speaking 100 years since Government Communications Headquarters was formed, director Jeremy Fleming described society as being in a 'period of accelerated change' with technological advances leaving the spy agency needing to alter the way it works.

GCHQ, which rarely speaks publicly about its work but has tried to become less secretive in recent years, is marking its centenary with a series of events including an exhibition at the Science Museum in London.

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