‘Secret expansion’: GCHQ may be employing ‘thousands more’ than it officially admits

GCHQ, the Cheltenham-based spy agency, reportedly employs thousands more people than it has publicly declared. The alleged expansion comes amid growing criticism of GCHQ, MI5 and MI6, for lack of transparency.’

GCHQ has recruited several thousand more people as the “task of tackling complex threats becomes more difficult and labor intensive,” the Times reported. The majority of the thousands of extra staff hired as contractors are thought to come from the private sector, according to the newspaper. “They are all security-vetted and sworn to secrecy.”

David Davis, a Conservative Party MP, told the Times that secrecy surrounding GCHQ’s numerical strength was “a bad opening chapter to this new era of transparency.”’

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