Yes, it sounds more like the person in charge of each research station was ordered to make sure that the disks (numbered!) would be stored in a repository organized by the official in charge.
That would be a good thing for us, because there would probably be a number of documents sent back to the MoD to acknowledge and describe where the disks had been stored. Better chance to find one of many documents....
These guys didn't just communicate by voice....
That's why we have thousands of boxes of documents.....