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The first episode revealed that Station X was the cover name for the World War II radio interception station co-located with the Government Code & Cypher School at Bletchley Park. [6] In 1938 the British Secret Service bought Bletchley Park, installing wireless receiver (call-sign: "Station X") to pick up German messages. A small group of ...
Bletchley Park is an English country house and estate in Bletchley, Milton Keynes (Buckinghamshire), that became the principal centre of Allied code-breaking during the Second World War. The mansion was constructed during the years following 1883 for the financier and politician Herbert Leon in the Victorian Gothic , Tudor and Dutch Baroque ...
Gordon Welchman was the subject of a BBC documentary in 2015. [13] The programme was entitled Bletchley Park: Code-breaking's Forgotten Genius [15] and as The Codebreaker Who Hacked Hitler when broadcast on the Smithsonian Channel in the US. [16]
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Derek Taunt, arrived in Bletchley Park in August 1941, worked in Hut 6 (mathematician, later bursar of Jesus College, Cambridge) Telford Taylor, US Army (Counsel for the Prosecution at the Nuremberg Trials) Ralph Tester, linguist, head of the Testery and member of a TICOM team (accountant with Unilever) John Thompson, codebreaker [citation needed]
The story, loosely based on actual events, takes place in March 1943, when the Second World War was at its height. The cryptanalysts at Bletchley Park, Buckinghamshire, have a problem: the Nazi U-boats have changed one of their code reference books used for Enigma machine ciphers, leading to a blackout in the flow of vital naval signals intelligence.
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The Bletchley Declaration is, in itself, nowhere near as much of a game changer as Turing’s bombe was. Unsurprisingly, given the flurry of lobbying that’s taken place in the run-up to the ...