Mega update of the A-3 essay
I’ve added a lot of new information and rewritten parts of Intercepted conversations - Bell Labs A-3 Speech scrambler and German codebreakers. Enjoy!
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1). In US military attaché codes of WWII I added information from the 1974 interview of Frank Rowlett.2). In German intelligence on operation Overlord I added information from the postwar interrogation...
View ArticleMore information on the codebreakers of the Italian Navy
I’ve added a lot of information from the report ‘Italian Communications Intelligence Organization’-Report by Admiral Maugeri with U.S. Navy Introduction in Italian codebreakers of WWII.
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Compromise of Polish communications in WWII – an overview
In WWII Poland fought on the side of the Allies and suffered for it since it was the first country occupied by Nazi Germany. At the end of the war the suffering of the Poles did not end since they had...
View ArticleNSA hacks and leaked spy cables
Lots of interesting stories in the news:Analysis of NSA malware by Kaspersky Lab: ‘Equation Group: The Crown Creator of Cyber-Espionage’.Compromise of Gemalto, the world’s largest SIM card...
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Update
I added the following pic in Italian codebreakers of WWII.Also in Japanese codebreakers of WWII I added ‘From 1943 onwards the Japanese could solve the Soviet diplomatic code used by the embassies in...
View ArticleMore information on the Japanese codebreakers of WWII
I rewrote parts and added lots of pics in Japanese codebreakers of WWII.
View ArticleCriticism of Soviet/Russian MiG-29 fighter jet
The site foxtrotalpha has an interview with Lt. Col. Fred "Spanky" Clifton and one of the topics discussed was the Russian MiG-29 fighter, introduced in the early 1980’s by the Soviet Air Force. The...
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I’ve added links to the CIA FOIA, State Department FOIA and Japan Center for Asian Historical Records websites.Also added decoded US and British diplomatic messages from 1941 in Japanese codebreakers...
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Article on the Soviet T-34 tank
A very interesting article on the T-34 has been published by ‘The Journal of Slavic Military Studies’. It is ‘Once Again About the T-34’ by Boris Kavalerchik and it’s basically a translation of chapter...
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The codes of the Polish Intelligence network in occupied France 1943-44
In WWII Poland fought on the side of the Allies and suffered for it since it was the first country occupied by Nazi Germany. In the period 1940-45 the Polish Government in Exile and its military forces...
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Who was source 206?
During WWII the US Office of Strategic Services station in Bern, Switzerland (headed by Allen Dulles) recruited agents in occupied Europe and transmitted intelligence reports back to Washington. Dulles...
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The US Division Field Code
When the United States entered WWII, in December 1941, US military and civilian agencies were using several cryptologic systems in order to protect their sensitive communications. The Army and Navy...
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NAAS 5 reports retrieved from France - 1945
During WWII the German Army’s signal intelligence agency OKH/In 7/VI had signal intelligence regiments assigned to Army Groups in order to supply them with radio intelligence on Allied formations....
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The unscrupulous Italian official and the code of colonel Fellers
One of the most damaging compromises of Allied communications security, during WWII, was the case of Colonel Bonner Fellers, US military attaché in Cairo during 1940-2. Fellers sent back to Washington...
View ArticleFriedman collection released by NSA
The NSA has released a huge collection of documents relating to William Friedman. Their statement says:‘This collection, composed of over 52,000 pages in more than 7,600 documents, including some sound...
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The compromise of the communications of General Barnwell R. Legge, US...
In the course of WWII both the Allies and the Axis powers were able to gain information of great value from reading their enemies secret communications. In Britain the codebreakers of Bletchley Park...
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1). The following reports are available from the NSA’s website:Flicke vol1Flicke vol2FMS P-038 German radio intelligenceInterrogation of Samarughi, GiuseppeInterrogation of Vassalio TodaroInterrogation...
View ArticleAwesome!
This doesn’t have anything to do with WWII or codes and ciphers but it’s too awesome not to upload (provided you watch the show)
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The OSS Bern station and the compromise of State Department codes in WWII
In the course of WWII both the Allies and the Axis powers were able to gain information of great value from reading their enemies secret communications. In Britain the codebreakers of Bletchley Park...
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