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#ColdWarHistory #TURNSTILE Just found the following remarkable 1967 assessment of the vulnerability of Whitehall staff dispersed in war to the former Central Government War HQ at Corsham (then codenamed TURNSTILE), which was soon to be a decoy site for the new PYTHON concept.
#ColdWarHistory #TURNSTILE Such was the importance of maintaining the cover story that TURNSTILE was still the Central Government War HQ, that a small number of Whitehall staff would be dispersed to TURNSTILE, even though they apparently weren't expected to survive nuclear attack
#ColdWarHistory #TURNSTILE HDC(MG) 2nd Meeting states: "(e) The best comparison to use for the situation of those sent to TURNSTILE at a time of possible nuclear attack on the United Kingdom would be with those remaining in London, from which most of these would have come.".
