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Jim Gillogly (jim@mentat.com)
Thu, 19 Mar 98 10:42:45 PST
Tony Iannotti says:
> There was a book called "Thread of Deceipt", British author, that laid out
> how [the Coventry story] was apocryphal. (same author as "The Circus". I
> think, Nigel West?)
> I'll look up details when home.
Bauer has the short form in "Decrypted Secrets", pp. 3/4:
In 1974, Group Captain Winterbotham said Churchill let Coventry be bombed
because he feared defending it would reveal that the British were reading
German Enigma messages. This story is totall false: As the targets were
indicated by changing code-words, this would not in fact have been possible.
However, the British were initially very upset when, in 1943/1944, the
Americans began systematically to destroy all the tanker U-boats, whose
positions they had learnt as a result of cracking the 4-rotor ENIGMA used
by the German submarine command. ... In fact [the Germans did not suspect],
instead ascribing the losses (incorrectly) to treachery.
Good book!
Jim Gillogly
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