Hawklaw Intercept "Y" Listening Station (Former)
Date 21 September 2007
Event ID 907213
Category Management
Type Site Management
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/907213
Single storey building with flat, felt roof. Metal casement windows in Art Deco style.
Operationally active by 1942, Hawklaw was one of a number of Y listening stations run by The Foreign Office and wartime intelligence services, gathering the raw material for the code breakers at Bletchley Park. At the end of the war the station became a GCHQ controlled Y station, masquerading as a long distance radio station. It continued to intercept messages, primarily in the Eastern Block, until becoming obsolete with the widespread use of satellites and decommissioned in 1988. (6a Architects 1939-2007 Historical Report on Hawklaw, Cupar).
