Britain's secret eavesdropping centre,
GCHQ, has been criticised for failing to recruit enough ethnic minority staff to help fight terrorism.
An official report, leaked to the Sunday Times, also said black and Asian intelligence officers had complained of discrimination at the complex near Cheltenham, in Gloucestershire.
A GCHQ spokesman told the BBC policies and practices were now being improved.
Much of GCHQ's work involves monitoring calls and e-mails from terror suspects.
But The Capability Review, authorised by the head of the civil service, Sir Gus O'Donnell, and published in June 2009, says a lack of officers with specialist knowledge of languages like Urdu and Arabic is hampering efforts to spot codes and cultural nuances in intercepted conversations.
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