GCHQ had a 30-year ‘whites only’ rule for hiring staff, says new book
GCHQ had a ‘colour bar’ on employees for nearly three decades, a new history of Britain’s eavesdropping agency reveals. The ban on hiring non-white staff was in place from the 1950s until as late as 1980. The revelation is made in a ‘warts-and-all’ official history of the spy agency, which also tells how ‘major mistakes’ … Read more