Ultra and Coventy

Perry wrote that the British let Coventry be destroyed lest Ultra
be revealed.  Kahn doesn't believe that.  From ``Kahn on Codes'', p. 110:

	Nor, to debunk another story, did Churchill let Coventry
	be destroyed because he believed that defensive measures
	would risk the secret of ULTRA.  Critical analyses of
	documents show that this is pure myth.

The footnote cites F.H. Hinsley with E.E. Thomas, C.F.G Ransom, and
R.C. Knight, ``British Intelligence in the Second World War:  Its
Influence on Strategy and Operations'' (London, 1979- ), I:528-48;
N.E. Evans, ``Air Intelligence and the Coventry Raid'', Royal United
Services Institution Journal (September 1976), 66-73.  I don't have
access to either of those publications, so I can't assess that further.

On Fri, 3 Jun 1994 smb@research.att.com wrote:

> 	Nor, to debunk another story, did Churchill let Coventry
> 	be destroyed because he believed that defensive measures
> 	would risk the secret of ULTRA.  Critical analyses of
> 	documents show that this is pure myth.
> 

But as an aside, the CCCP was majorly pissed at us when they discovered that
we had cracked the german godes and not shared them with then-allies the CCCP.
If I remember correctly there were more CCCP casualties than those of any
other countries.

-NetSurfer

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    Date: Sat, 4 Jun 1994 14:23:01 -1000 (HST)
    From: NetSurfer <jdwilson@gold.chem.hawaii.edu>
    Subject: Re: Ultra and Coventy

    If I remember correctly there were more CCCP casualties than those of any
    other countries.

I'd be awfully suprised if there were enough people in the central
committee (CCCP) to make that statement true :-)

Zeke

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On Sat, 4 Jun 1994, Ezekial Palmer wrote:

> 
> I'd be awfully suprised if there were enough people in the central >
committee (CCCP) to make that statement true :-) 

> 

> Zeke

Quite true - the "comrades" in the trenches were highly unlikely to be
Central Committee members (they were more likely to be home sipping fine
spirits)



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