The secret GCHQ spy base between the pub and Starbucks

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The secret GCHQ spy base between the pub and Starbucks
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Spies worked here between 1953 and 2019, and very few seem to have noticed

GCHQ moved into its secret London home in the spring of 1953, and a range of different teams worked there over the following decades.

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