Coventry

[Alan Westrope]

On Fri, 6 Jan 1995, Paul Delany <delany at sfu.ca> wrote:

>   In John Halperin's *CP Snow: an oral biography* Snow says that
> Churchill didn't know in advance about the bombing of Coventry -
> there's quite a bit in this book about the de-coding operation at
> Bletchley - though, of course, there are many other sources.

The Coventry bombing controversy surfaces periodically on sci.crypt
and talk.politics.crypto.  The consensus seems to be that, although
it was long believed that Churchill knew in advance, recent scholarship
-- with the benefit of newly declassified information about the
cryptanalysis of Enigma -- indicates that he did not receive the
pertinent intelligence in time to consider evacuating the city.


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