JONES, AUBREY• 279thosecounterintelligenceexperts concentrating on the analysis of
interceptedAbwehrwireless traffic, withHugh Trevor Roperact-
ing as secretary. Its membership includedFelix Cowgilland Captain
Ferguson from theSecret Intelligence Service;Guy Liddell,Her-
bert Hart, andDick WhitefromMI5; Colonel Maltby and Kenneth
Morton Evans from the Radio Security Service; and (Sir) Denys
Page and Leonard Palmer fromGCHQ.JOINT SPEECH RESEARCH UNIT (JSRU).AGCHQsection un-
dertaking research in a specialist field in the Communications Secur-
ity Division.
JOINT TECHNICAL LANGUAGE SERVICE (JTLS).AGCHQ
division handling the recruitment, vetting, and training of specialist
personnel.
JOINT TERRORISM ANALYSIS CENTRE (JTAC).Following the
terrorist attack on New York and Washington, D.C., in September
2001, the British government established the JTAC to act as a
clearinghouse for all information from British sources and liaison
sources relating to terrorist threats.
JONES, AUBREY.Educated at a secondary school in Merthyr Tydfil,
Aubrey Jones graduated from the London School of Economics as a
prizewinner with a first-class honors degree. At age 26, he joined for-
eign staff of theTimes, but was recruited into theIntelligence Corps
upon the outbreak of war. A transfer toSection Vof theSecret Intel-
ligence Service(SIS) followed, and he was later posted to Bari once
the Allies had landed on the Italian mainland.
While still an SIS officer, Jones contested the 1945 general elec-
tion but failed to win the South-East Essex seat for the Conservatives.
At the end of 1946 Jones returned to theTimesand fought the Hay-
wood and Radcliffe by-election, which he also lost. Finally, in 1950,
after he had joined the British Iron and Steel Federation, he won Bir-
mingham Hall Green. Thereafter Jones’s parliamentary career pros-
pered and he was appointed minister of fuel and supply in December
- He retired from the House of Commons in 1965 and took nu-
merous directorships in industry.