[48204] in Cypherpunks
Re: "Gentlemen do not read each other's mail"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (jim bell)
Fri Jan 26 18:25:42 1996
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 1996 14:48:34 -0800
To: perry@piermont.com
From: jim bell <jimbell@pacifier.com>
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
At 05:28 PM 1/26/96 -0500, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
>
>jim bell writes:
>> (For the historically-impaired: Coventry was/is an English town (small
>> city?) perhaps most famous from the Lady Godiva legend...but I digress...
>> British found out, I guess through Ultra, that it was going to be bombed.
>> Telling the inhabitants would have saved many lives, but (possibly) alerted
>> the Germans that Enigma had been broken. British made the correct choice:
>> Let the city get bombed without (much?) warning. The value of keeping the
>> broken-ness of Ultra a secret far outweighed the value of Coventry.)
>
>The current claim is that, in fact, there was no advance warning about
>Coventry and that the claims that there was are unsubstantiated.
Extremely odd! Why distribute the claim, if it were false?!? Hmmmmm.....
And/or if the claim was falsely made by some non-governmental organization,
why not an immediate and forceful denial?
Color me confused.
