+4b/12: #DurhamReporting: British Intelligence deceiving the 1924 and 1944. Svetlana Lokhova. @RealSLokhova #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety
Jan 02, 2022, 01:57 AM
Photo: Bletchley Park in Buckinghamshire—Hut 6 in 2004
+4b/12: #DurhamReporting: British Intelligence deceiving the 1924 and 1944. Svetlana Lokhova. @RealSLokhova #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety
"All the years I have been in office … I have read every one of these flimsies (i.e., decrypts) and I attach more importance to them as a means of forming a true judgment of public policy…than to any other source of knowledge at the disposal of the state." —November 1924, Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer, Winston Churchill, (Andrew 1985, 315–316)
. . . in spite of the seemingly astronomical odds against deciphering even an individual letter in an Enigma-encrypted message – something like a hundred and fifty trillion to one – British codebreakers managed to beat them. [Note: two-thirds of the Bletchley Park staff were women.]
. . . in spite of the seemingly astronomical odds against deciphering even an individual letter in an Enigma-encrypted message – something like a hundred and fifty trillion to one – British codebreakers managed to beat them. [Note: two-thirds of the Bletchley Park staff were women.]