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Voluntary Interceptors Tribute at the RSGB National Radio Centre by John Swartz, Voluntary WA9AQN Interceptors tribute at the RSGB National Radio Centre n an evening in 1979, thirty-four years after the end of World OWar II, television viewers in Britain learned of the existence of a cadre of quiet, unassuming operatives who carried out a secret mission. From 1939 throughout the years of the war, to all appearances leading ordinary civilian lives, they were ‘secret listeners’, otherwise known as Voluntary Interceptors (VIs). Officially, they were MI8(c), a part of the Radio Security Service originally within the administration of MI5. They were amateur radio operators and shortwave listening enthusiasts who were all proficient in Morse code. Their mission was secret – and intended to remain so for the rest of their lives. Records identifying them were destroyed at the end of the war. Present estimates of their Voluntary Interceptors tribute at the RSGB National Radio Centre. (Photo: Giles Read, G1MFG). numbers range from 1000 to 1700, and they were dispersed throughout Britain. About 800 wrote his story to provide greater recognition to approached by the intelligence establishment to have been identified in a new exhibit that has the work of his compatriots [3]. assist in assembling a corps of volunteer listeners quietly opened at the RSGB National Radio In 2003, Geoffrey Pidgeon, who had assembled to monitor the airwaves for signals from spies Centre, located in the grounds of Britain’s famous communications equipment at Whaddon Hall and foreign agents who might be transmitting wartime codebreaking centre, Bletchley Park. during the war, published The Secret Wireless to their controllers from within British territory. War, The Story of MI6 Communications 1939- He undertook the assignment enthusiastically. 1945 [4]. Pidgeon noted that the interception Thus, the official system of recruiting and vetting Breaking the silence business had involved the greatest gathering of Voluntary Interceptors began. After watching that TV programme, some wives amateur radio talent ever in a single endeavour, In a typical telling of his recruitment, Pat turned to husbands, some husbands turned to and that greater recognition was due. At about the Hawker, G3VA, described his introduction to the wives, sons and daughters turned to fathers and same time, David and Debra Rixon, of Grindelwald Voluntary Interceptors. A mysterious letter had mothers and said something like, “Was that what Productions, issued their two hour video entitled arrived “from a ‘Lord Sandhurst’ asking whether you really did during the war?” [1]. The Secret Wireless War, commemorating the he would be prepared to do some voluntary work A goodly number admitted their complicity. communications achievements of the war years, on behalf of the war effort.” Candidates would There were others who still felt obliged by their which included prominent coverage of the secret be subjected to a background check. Each was pledges. Many had already passed away, carrying work of the Voluntary Interceptors [5]. required to sign a declaration under the Official the secret with them. This was seven years after Secrets Act before further information would be the publication of The Ultra Secret, in which disclosed about the work to be undertaken [6]. the secret existence of Bletchley Park and its Who were these people? A number of authors have addressed the codebreakers had been revealed. Some then In the years leading up to Hitler’s invasion of subject of signals interception over the decades considered the revelation a scandalous breach of Poland and his designs on world conquest, the since the 1979 BBC broadcast. In The Secret the oath they had taken. Some still do. British intelligence establishment became more Listeners, Sinclair McKay described the various Paul Cort-Wright, G3SEM, spent two years and more concerned about the safety of the intercept services, including the Post Office, each researching the material that became that 1979 British homeland. That concern enveloped fear branch of the military services and the diplomatic broadcast. He noted how little of the story of the of espionage, sabotage, and invasion. or foreign service communications departments VI’s was known or recognised [2]. A decade later, Arthur Watts, G6UN, was then president [7]. Each branch had particular fields of interest Ted Handcocks, G5HN, himself a former VI, also of the Radio Society of Great Britain. He was to serve, such as naval communications, air Adapted from the RSGB magazine RadCom, September 2018 force, diplomatic services, and others. of service were not applicable. Thus that the RSS, and thus the Voluntary Interceptors, These were commonly referred the VIs included some who were had been removed from MI5, the domestic or to as ‘Y’ services, short for wheelchair bound, teenagers, Home Front security agency, and delivered into “’wireless intercept’. The and pensioners. the fold of MI6, the Foreign Intelligence office, Voluntary Interceptors were Among contemporary after it became clear that there were no signals but one component of the writers who address emanating from spies in the UK, and that the VIs interception system, but the subject of signals were tracking the Abwehr. So, while the Voluntary more often than not, the intelligence and its part Interceptors were able to tell their friends and use of the term ‘Y service’ in the war, the role of neighbours their own stories after the main story excludes the VIs, who the licensed amateur became public, none of them were then (nor are were not in uniform and radio operators who those few who survive) yet privy to any records not affiliated with any used their skills in the that would enable them, or modern historians, particular military base. privacy and secrecy to discover what messages they had copied The VIs were unique of their own homes that resulted in countermeasures of note in any among the wartime remains obscure. George particular action. listeners in several Busby, however, spent The VIs were supposed to blend in with respects. First, the 10 years in researching the civilian population, keep quiet, and not be Voluntary Interceptors were the story of one of noticed. Some VIs suffered public questions and dispersed across the British Bletchley’s ‘outstations’, inquiries about why they were not otherwise in Isles. Such broad geographic the RSS listening post at uniform and their curious activities sometimes distribution made it less likely Gilnahirk, Northern Ireland. resulted in their being reported as suspected that signals would be missed In The Spies at Gilnahirk, Busby spies. But they kept their mouths shut. because of variations in radio describes the origins of the RSS Greater recognition for their work is the propagation, and reduced and, particularly, of the purpose of a new interactive exhibit housed at the likelihood that copying Arthur Watts, G6UN, President of the Voluntary Interceptors [8]. the RSGB National Radio Centre. A visit to the errors would not be detected RSGB, performed a key role in setting He has identified many of National Radio Centre should be on the agenda or corrected in the analysis up the Voluntary Interceptors system. the VIs and RSS personnel for anyone visiting Bletchley Park, and that is processes. Operating from from Northern Ireland who especially true for amateur radio operators. their homes, the government did not have to pay worked at the Gilnahirk installation. When you do, it is worth the effort to take for space for the work to be done. In 2017, Sinclair McKay paid homage to some time to view the new exhibit, to view the Second, the Voluntary Interceptors already the Voluntary Interceptors in Bletchley Park, commemorative list of those whose identities have had their own receiving equipment, so there was The Secret Archives, a beautifully illustrated been discovered, and to provide any information no immediate expense to the government for new history of the Park and its work during the war: you may have to assist in identifying anyone else equipment, nor a time delay while manufacturers “Intelligence analysts had another fantastically who may have served quietly and in secret. ramped up production to meet the need. Those useful, top-secret army – the VIs, or Voluntary who signed on started immediately, and many Interceptors…” [9]. worked with home-built regenerative receivers. References As the war progressed, many received new and [1] The Secret Listeners, BBC, higher quality equipment to use in their volunteer Much is revealed http://eafa.org.uk/catalogue/5108 activity. The 1979 broadcast had revealed that the VIs [2] Radio Communication, December 1980 Third, being qualified for amateur radio licences had discovered the secret radio networks of the [3] http://cdmnet.org/RSS/SecretListeners/Handcocks.pdf prior to the war, the Voluntary Interceptors were German military intelligence, the Abwehr. [4] G Pidgeon, Secret Wireless War, UPSO, 2003, p102 already well able to receive and copy Morse code. Contributing to the lack of recognition is the [5] The Secret Wireless War, Grindelwald Productions, Other listening services needed to train thousands fact that the RSS and the Voluntary Interceptors www.grindelwald.co.uk/html2/sww.htm; see also PBS of new operators and to equip listening posts had become a part of MI6, the office responsible Programming of Interest to Radio Amateurs, K9YA in order to be fully functional. As the amateurs for foreign intelligence activities. As a result, the Telegraph, Vol. 1, Issue 2 (2004), p6 were accustomed to copying plain language cloak of official secrecy remains over whatever [6] Pidgeon, p298 and commonly understood abbreviations, the records may still exist. In 1986, historian and [7] S McKay, The Secret Listeners, Aurum, 2013 transition to encrypted text was all that was author Nigel West wrote a very engaging treatment [8] George Busby, The Spies at Gilnahirk, Ballyhay needed. Amateur radio operators were ready to of the origins and development of the Voluntary Books, Donaghadee, Northern Ireland, 2016 roll; having undertaken a considerable amount Interceptors, GCHQ: The Secret Wireless War [9] Sinclair McKay, Bletchley Park, The Secret of effort to obtain licences, it could easily be 1900-86 [10].
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