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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.
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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.
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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.
Breaking the Enigma codes was a priority for the Government Code and Cypher School (GC&CS), based at Bletchley Park in Buckinghamshire. As mentioned in the letter, the cryptanalysts (code breakers)...
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.
May 14, 2013 · In February 1941 the Currier-Sinkov mission from the United States brought a Japanese Foreign Office “Purple” cypher machine and other codebreaking items to Bletchley, where Colonel Tiltman’s solutions of Japanese army code systems, which he explained to the American cryptographers during their visit, represented the first solutions of ...
Sep 20, 2018 · By the end of the Second World War in 1945 nearly 10,000 people worked at Bletchley Park, an enormous increase on the 130-strong staff that composed the Government Code and Cypher School in 1939. In many ways it was one of the most remarkable groups ever assembled.
Feb 23, 2022 · The Bletchley Park Roll of Honour lists all those believed to have worked in signals intelligence during World War Two, at Bletchley Park and other locations.
