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- During the war approximately 12,000 people worked in the Park, the work which these people did was extremely top secret, in fact Winston Churchill, who was a frequent visitor, often said 'Bletchley Park was his and England’s best kept secret', this secrecy extended to the very top that even some of the high command and government didn't know where the information received telling them what the Germans were about to do came from.
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Churchill placed enormous value on their work, demanding to see not only summaries of their findings hot off the press, but also insisting on seeing raw data, too; he called them his ‘golden eggs’ laid by geese (code-breakers) that never cackled.
Did you know? The British tried hard to conceal their code breaking success from the Axis. In 1942, when five Italian ships bound for Africa were sunk due to ULTRA information, Churchill sent a telegram to Naples congratulating a fictitious spy and awarding him a bonus.
May 14, 2013 · Churchill became Prime Minister on 10 May 1940. Twelve days later, on 22 May, the codebreakers at Bletchley Park broke the Enigma key most frequently used by the German Air Force.
Aug 2, 2024 · Churchill famously called the Bletchley Park code-breakers, “The geese that laid the golden eggs and never cackled.” But for the WRENs, he had a special accolade. “He had a way of using birds as metaphors,” Bourne explained.
- Jean Paschke
Apr 21, 2015 · Bletchley Park was Britain’s top code-breaking centre and was credited with shortening World War Two in Europe. Few dispute that the work done there was of the utmost importance. Security was ultra-tight and it had to be.
The flood of high-grade military intelligence produced by Bletchley Park was code-named Ultra (from “Top Secret Ultra”). According to some experts, Ultra may have hastened Germany’s defeat by as much as two years.
The primary function at Bletchley Park was breaking and reading the German Enigma code, particularly that of the Kriegsmarine. The naval code was of prime importance because German U-boats sinking were supply ships in the North Atlantic.
