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He was no longer the man he had known, or rather thought himself.
George MacDonald • The Complete Fairy Tales
Sadiq Khan.
Gregory David Roberts • Shantaram: A Novel
The Abwehr intelligence service employed two kinds of cipher. German secret agents in the field were given simple systems you could work out with pencil and paper (sometimes called manual or hand ciphers) to scramble the messages they sent by wireless to their controllers. These were the twigs and branches of secret communications. The ‘ham radio’
... See moreNicholas Rankin • Ian Fleming's Commandos
However, when Abwehr offices communicated the agents’ messages onwards to Berlin or got replies from HQ, they were mechanically enciphered using the Abwehr-modified Enigma machines. This more difficult and more important trunk system of secret communications was first broken by Dilly Knox on 8 December 1941 (the day after the Pearl Harbor attack),
... See moreNicholas Rankin • Ian Fleming's Commandos
