Defence Intelligence and Security Centre (DISC) is the location of the Headquarters of both the Defence College of Intelligence and the British Army Intelligence Corps. It is located in the village of Chicksands in the English county of Bedfordshire with the River Flit running through the camp.

Site History

Chicksands was the site of RAF Chicksands, an RAF signals collection station during and after World War II; during the war it was one of the "Y-Stations" which sent intercepted signals to Station X at Bletchley Park. The station was used by the United States Air Force from 1950 to 1995, also for signals collection, being the location for its first huge FLR-9 direction finding antenna (known as an Elephant Cage) from 1963 to 1995. The site was closed as an RAF station in 1997, then handed over to the Intelligence Corps allowing the Corps Headquarters and training delivery to re-locate from Templer Barracks in Ashford, Kent.

Defence College of Intelligence

The Defence college of Intelligence is responsible for delivering training in intelligence and security to members of the British Armed Forces, police and other public sector staff as well as international partners. Training is delivered over three sites, Chicksands, Defence School of Language Beaconsfield and the School of Photography at the Defence College of Aeronautical Engineering, Cosford.

HQ Intelligence Corps

The Headquarters of the Intelligence Corps is located on site, with all core training for Int Corps soldiers and officers being delivered through the DCI.

HMS Ferret

is a training unit of the Royal Naval Reserve which delivers Intelligence related operational capability. ^[1]

15(UK) Psychological Operations Group

15 Psychological Operations Group is a unit of the Intelligence Corps which contains personnel from all three UK armed forces. The unit supports deployed commanders in the provision of psychological operations in the operational and tactical environments.^[2]

Other resident units

• Int Corps Museum
• Army Cadet Force detachment

References

1. ↑ HMS Ferret
2. ↑ 15 (UK) Psychological Operations Group homepage

External links

http://www.official-documents.gov.uk/document/hc0506/hc03/0319/0319.pdf

Images

Other

• Chicksands on Placeopedia See nearby places with Wikipedia articles

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