crypto-GR-aphy

Mark Wright AIA mwaia at yahoo.com
Sat Nov 20 09:10:49 CST 1999


Howdy

--- RICHARD_WILSON at udlp.com wrote:
> does the building in the picture at: 
> 
>     http://www.cranfield.ac.uk/ccc/bpark/
> 
> remind anyone else of their version of the "White Visitation"?


and


> funny thing though - the cryptography work carried out at Bletchley
> Park was a
> (possibly the) top allied secret and remained so long after WWII
> ended because
> it assumed an even more central role during the cold war. what
> records hadn't
> been destroyed remained classified until after GR had been written. 

The photo of the Bletchley Park building could be any one of many tens
of thousands of sizable houses and institutional buildings throughout
the UK.  That it is wholly unremarkable might have been one of the
things that made it a good site for a clandestine organization to do
their work.

I'm curious... what was the "cover" story for the code breakers at
Bletchley??

Mark
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