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From the past twenty one years I have been researching and recovering the history and purpose of the Radio Security Service operation in Northern Ireland with a fair amount of success. Only one question remained unanswered. What were the names of our local Voluntary Interceptors? Today that question had been answered in part through a follow up to a story told by the daughter of a VI and the son of another VI. Here in Northern Ireland our VI's were given a Home Guard uniform as a cover for their work, but they were not in the Home Guard as such. They taught CW to others in the Home Guard and also to military cadet organisations in their spare time. Young men and women who if they joined His Majesty's forces would bring a skill to their service. Some years ago I came across a Closed file within the Public…

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I am greatly interested in the history of signals, intelligence and computing. As background, I am ex-RAF, was once the I.T. Manager of Milton Keynes (where Bletchley Park is situated) and have walked a lot in North Bucks. And those threads have led me to see a lot of the MI6/SIS communications sites – 20 of them – in the area near Buckingham – see the map.

It also led me to write my books, which cover the subjects of how the mix of communications, security, code breaking and computing were fundamental not only to the outcome of the Second World war but also to the world we live in today. My books are called The Intelligence Zone and its sequel A New World After Pearl.

On the back of this, I have talked extensively - including at Bletchley Park(twice) - about these communications sites which I call The voices…