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US stole Codebreaking Limelight from Britain in WWII?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Wayner)
Wed Sep 6 10:28:12 2000
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According to the Daily Telegraph, the US took most of the credit for
breaking Japanese codes during WWII. The paper says that Bletchley
Park deserves more credit according to recently declassified papers.
Only traditional British reticence kept them from claiming credit
before.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk:80/et?ac=003413427358635&rtmo=aq54aK9J&atmo=rrrrrrvs&pg=/et/00/9/6/ncode06.html
Of course, the British also stood on the shoulders of the Polish.....
-Peter
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