![]() ![]() ![]() I was involved in that work from almost the beginning of the war, after a lady from the Foreign Office, who had been billeted on my family home in the nearby village of Swanbourne, said that people with my knowledge of French and German would be useful down the road. Churchill visited Bletchley more than once in the course of the war and said later that its work "shortened the duration of the war by at least two years". ![]() In fact it was the result of work by a team of code-breakers, which was described by Winston Churchill as " the goose that laid the golden egg but never cackled". They appear to have assumed that any information, which actually could only have come through the reading of their cypher traffic, was the work of an informer. What is also extraordinary is that the Germans themselves never seriously believed that Enigma had been compromised. ![]()
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