雙語暢銷書《艾倫圖靈傳》第4章:彼岸新星(74)
After the initial break of a captured German code book, passed to the Admiralty by Russia in 1914, a great variety of wireless and cable signals had been deciphered by a mostly civilian staff, recruited from universities and schools.
The arrangement had the peculiar feature that the director, Admiral Hall, enjoyed control over diplomatic messages (for instance the famous Zimmermann telegram).
這項工作的負責人，是海軍的霍爾上將，這個人非常樂於把玩外交信息（比如著名的齊默爾曼電報）。Hall was no stranger to the exercise of power.
霍爾對政治權術很在行，
It was he who showed Casement's diary to the press, and there were more important instances of his 'acting on intelligence independently of other departments in matters of policy that lay beyond the concerns of the Admiralty.'
正是他曝光了凱斯門日記。The organisation survived the armistice, but in 1922 the Foreign Office succeeded in detaching it from the Admiralty.
停戰後，這個組織保留了下來，但在1922年，外交部成功地接手了它。By then it had been renamed as the 'Government Code and Cypher School', and was supposed to study 'the methods of cypher communication used by foreign powers' and to 'advise on the security of British codes and cyphers.'
當時把它改名叫政府編碼密碼學校，而且主張學習外國勢力所使用的密碼技術，來促進英國編碼與密碼技術的提高。It now came technically under the control of the head of the secret service himself nominally responsible to the Foreign Secretary.
現在它表面上對外交大臣負責，實際上由祕密情報部門直接領導注。The director of GC and CS, Commander Alastair Denniston, was allowed by the Treasury to employ thirty civilian Assistants,30 as the high-level staff were called, and about fifty clerks and typists.
政府編碼密碼學校的負責人，是海軍的阿拉斯泰爾·丹尼斯頓中校，經過財務部的批准，他僱傭了30個助理作爲高級人員，另外還有大約50個工作人員和打字員。For technical civil service reasons, there were fifteen Senior and fifteen Junior Assistants.
在助理中，分爲15個資深助理和15個初級助理。
