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Re: Book review: Codebreakers, the Inside Story of Bletchley Park
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Timothy C. May)
Wed Jan 4 01:25:39 1995
From: tcmay@netcom.com (Timothy C. May)
To: wcs@anchor.ho.att.com (bill.stewart@pleasantonca.ncr.com +1-510-484-6204)
Date: Tue, 3 Jan 1995 21:51:38 -0800 (PST)
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com, gnu@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <9501040525.AA10625@anchor.ho.att.com> from "bill.stewart@pleasantonca.ncr.com +1-510-484-6204" at Jan 4, 95 00:25:42 am
bill.stewart@pleasantonca.ncr.com +1-510-484-6204 wrote:
>
> Another book with some insight into Bletchley Park is
> "Cloak and Gown" (I forget the author), about the relationship between
> Yale academics and the OSS, the WW2 predecessor to the CIA.
That's by Robin Winks. I have a copy, in hardback, that I found some
years back in a used book store. Lots of good stuff about the central
role Yale has played.
> Among the various Yalies who went into the OSS was James Jesus Angleton,
> who spent a lot of time at Bletchley analyzing information that might
> be useful for US Army and covert OSS activities, and trying to support
...
A friend of mine, Buddy Diamond, developer of the "NFL Challenge" PC
game of some years back, worked with James J. Angleton on a kind of
"CIA Challenge" training game. I met Buddy at the 1988 Crypto
conference, and he was the main reason I got invited to the Hackers
Conference that year (and thereafter, as is the norm). Oh, he went to
Yale, and this had a lot to do with the CIA getting in touch with him.
--Tim May
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