The Secret Life of Bletchley Park (44 page)

  
3
  John Cairncross,
The Enigma Spy: The Story of the Man who Changed World War Two
(Century, 1997)

  
4
  Andrew Sinclair,
The Red and the Blue: Intelligence, Treason and the Universities
(Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1986)

  
5
  Quoted in the
Independent
, 1994

  
6
  Mavis Batey,
From Bletchley with Love
(Bletchley Park Trust monograph)

  
1
  Lucienne Edmonston-Stowe, addressing an Enigma symposium, 1992

  
2
  John Cairncross,
The Enigma Spy: The Story of the Man who Changed World War Two
(Century, 1997)

  
3
  Irene Young,
Enigma Variations: A Memoir of Love and War
(Main stream, 1990)

  
4
  Tennis court memos, National Archives

  
5
  Memos concerning journalists, National Archives

  
6
  
Bletchley Gazette
, 1945

  
1
  Dilly Knox poem, quoted in Penelope Fitzgerald,
The Knox Brothers
(Macmillan, 1977)

  
2
  Dilly Knox farewell letter, National Archives

  
3
  George Vergine, quoted in Virtual Jewish Library

  
4
  Roy Jenkins,
A Life at the Centre
(Macmillan, 1991)

  
5
  Harry Fensom, addressing an Enigma symposium, 1992

  
6
  Harry Fensom, addressing an Enigma symposium, 1992

  
7
  Letter from Gordon Welchman, National Archives

  
8
  Tommy Flowers, interview for an Imperial War Museum video presentation, London

  
1
  Quoted in Marion Hill,
Bletchley Park People
(The History Press, 2004)

  
2
  Quoted in Hill,
Bletchley Park People

  
3
  Rosemary Calder, quoted in Michael Smith,
The Emperor’s Codes
(Bantam, 2000)

  
4
  Demobilisation memo, National Archives

  
5
  Memo from Bletchley Park staffer, National Archives

  
6
  Memo from John Herivel, National Archives

  
1
  Bryan Magee,
Clouds of Glory
(Pimlico, 2004)

  
2
  Gwen Watkins,
Cracking The Luftwaffe Codes
(Greenhill Books, 2006)

  
1
  Walter Eytan, interviewed by the BBC

  
2
  Walter Eytan, interviewed by the BBC

  
3
  Gwen Watkins,
Cracking the Luftwaffe Codes
(Greenhill Books, 2006)

  
1
  Gwen Watkins,
Cracking the Luftwaffe Codes
(Greenhill Books, 2006)

Abernethy, Barbara 204

Abwehr codes, 118, 174–175

Adcock, Frank 23–24

Alexander, Hugh 19, 51, 61, 161, 162, 190, 191, 276, 287, 296, 309

Alington, Jean 252

Ascherson, Neal 319

Ashbee, Felicity 152

Athenia
133

Atlantic Convoys 83, 130, 133–134, 177, 186–187

Babbage, Charles 197

Baden Powell, Lord 168

Banburismus 133

Baring, Sarah (The Hon) 1, 2, 3, 18, 25–26, 31, 64–65, 71, 88, 120, 121, 123–124, 125–126, 140–141, 146, 150–151, 171, 172, 219, 222, 240, 274–275, 303, 310

Batey, Keith 22, 44, 51, 52, 60–61, 70–71, 73, 74, 80, 87–88, 92, 167, 170, 195, 196, 220, 289, 290, 297, 308, 310

Batey, Mavis (see also Lever, Mavis) 6, 14, 21, 22, 23, 44, 47, 50–51, 57, 60, 80, 86, 87, 119, 126, 131, 132, 133, 151, 169, 195, 196, 242, 258, 274, 275, 292, 301, 302, 303, 308, 309, 310, 319

Battle of Britain 6, 98, 99, 100, 107, 108, 109, 120

Battle of the Atlantic 83–84, 87, 120, 130–136, 139, 177, 186, 191

BBC 252, 280, 281

Bennett, Ralph 182, 188, 273

Berkeley Street 179

Bertrand, Gustave 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 213

Bigram tables 84, 100, 132, 133

Birch, Frank 13, 40, 85, 100, 133, 189, 190, 229, 230

Birley, Maxine 122

Bismarck
113, 135, 136

Blitz 6, 109–110, 111, 116, 120

Blunt, Anthony 230, 233, 235, 237

Bombes 54, 78, 84, 92, 94–106, 148–150, 154

Bourne, Ruth 37, 102–103, 136–137, 165

Bradshaw, Commander 28, 104, 251

Bridgewater, Bentley 61

Briggs, Asa (later Lord) 137, 211, 302

British Tabulating Machine Company 95, 223, 267

Britten, Benjamin 14

Broadway Buildings (MI6) 10, 23, 41

Brooke-Rose, Christine 209

Brown, Gordon 298

Brown, Tommy 192

Bundy, William 207

Burberry, Elizabeth 198

Burgess, Guy 230, 239

Cairncross, John 229, 230, 231, 232, 233, 235, 236, 237, 238, 248

Calvocoressi, Peter 34, 75, 107, 129, 166–167, 208, 209, 227, 235

Chamberlain, Neville 11, 12, 52, 97

Chatham intercept station 55–56, 57

Chicksands 200

Churchill, Winston 33, 39, 97, 98, 99, 107, 108, 112, 113, 114, 115, 116, 117, 156–163, 174, 178, 188, 189, 202, 203, 213, 232, 233, 234, 239, 241, 243, 270, 274, 312

Clarke, Joan (also Murray, Joan)

Clayton, Eileen 38, 89, 90, 109, 114

Clyde
, HMS 177

Cohen, Jon 197

Colussus machines, 87, 259–271, 283

Copeland, Jack 45, 83, 100

Cooper, Josh 11, 14, 15, 39, 53, 70, 89, 90, 91, 119, 120, 126, 144, 152, 189, 304

Coventry, the bombing of 107, 112–113, 114, 117

Crete 134

Cripps, Sir Stafford 234

Cunningham, Admiral 131, 132

D-Day 6, 272–274

De Grey, Nigel 14, 31, 32, 34, 46, 172, 173, 178, 180, 209, 222, 223, 224, 226

Denham, Hugh 185

Denmark Hill (intercept Station) 57

Denniston, Alistair 12, 13, 16, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 31, 38–39, 40, 45, 48, 51, 59, 77, 78, 82, 85, 86, 123, 133, 143, 144, 151, 152, 160, 178, 179, 181, 182, 204, 205, 206, 257, 259

Dollis Hill (P.O. research unit) 206, 261, 266, 267

Dolphin key 177, 186

Donitz, Admiral Karl 176, 177, 182, 187

Dryden, Henry 231

Eastcote 101, 165, 283, 288

Edmonston-Lowe, Lucienne 247

El-Alamein 6, 188

Elizabeth, HRH Princess 128

Enigma, breaking of 18, 20, 41–48, 50–51, 56, 58, 68–69, 73–74, 75, 79–81, 94

Enigma, invention and development 41–43, 44

Enigma, descriptive of machine 5, 41–48

Enigma, descriptive of technical aspects 41–43, 45, 48, 94

Ettinghausen (later Eytan), Walter 136, 310, 311

Fasson, Lieutenant 192

Faulkner, Captain 10

Fawcett, Jane (MBE) 8, 61, 135

Fensom, Harry 264, 265, 270

Fish code (see Tunny)

Fleming, Ian 7, 242, 243

Flowers, Dr Thomas, 259, 261, 263, 264, 265–266, 267, 268, 269, 270, 271

Foss, Hugh 42, 43, 184, 196, 204, 246, 247

Friedman, William 206

GCHQ 129, 286, 309

Gallilee, Mimi 27–28, 31–32, 52, 53, 65, 66, 67, 68, 108, 127, 137, 141, 144, 145, 172–173, 179, 201, 209, 217, 218, 247, 248, 249, 288, 289, 304, 305, 309, 311, 313

Gielgud, John 296

Giraud, General 213

Gleaner
HMS 84

Gores, Landis 34

Gorley Putt, S 8, 195

Government Code and Cypher School 9–11, 13, 15, 18, 19, 23, 41

Grazier, Colin (Able Seaman) 192

Halfaya (Egypt) 134

Harris, Robert 216

Henniker-Major, Osla 1, 3, 25

Herivel, John 16, 26, 35, 42, 46, 47, 50, 53, 55, 56, 68–69, 79–80, 159, 160, 282, 288, 308, 311

Herivel Tip 26, 68–69, 79–80

Hess, Dame Myra 246

Hilton, Peter 16

Hinsley, Professor Sir Harry 6, 23, 49, 73, 74, 81, 98, 173, 178, 187, 198, 272, 274

Hiroshima 281

Hitler, Adolf 24, 41, 43, 52, 97, 99, 108, 109, 233, 234, 263, 277, 278

Home Guard 164, 170

Hyson, Dorothy 7, 72, 306

Ismay, General 138

Italian Enigma 48, 119, 131, 132

Japanese codes 42, 58, 105, 116, 183, 184, 204

Jay, Ione 197

Jeffreys, John 14, 44, 73

Jenkins, Roy (Lord) 7, 117, 262, 263, 306, 310

Jones, Eric (Sir) 129, 309

Kabackie Woods, meeting at 45–46

Keen, Harold 95, 191, 267

Klugman, James 230, 241

Knox, Dilly 13, 17, 18, 22, 39, 40, 41, 43, 45, 46, 47, 48, 51, 54, 55, 57, 59, 73, 77, 78, 84,
85, 86, 88, 119, 126, 131, 167, 168, 174, 195, 196, 242, 256, 257, 258, 259

Krebs
132

Kursk, the Battle of 233, 236, 237

Lawn, Oliver 24–25, 33, 36, 50, 76, 91, 94, 95, 101, 110–111, 114, 115, 124, 141, 165–166, 170, 171, 189, 196, 197, 207, 219, 240, 246, 247, 252, 280, 285, 290, 291, 292, 310, 312, 314, 318

Lawn, Sheila (nee MacKenzie) 4, 12, 24, 33, 35, 62, 63, 71, 73, 120, 143, 149, 155, 196, 197, 221, 222, 240, 246, 247, 253, 280, 285, 291, 292, 303, 312, 318

Le Queux, William 168

Leon, Sir George 10

Leon, Sir Herbert 30

Lever, Mavis – see Mavis Batey

Loewe, Michael 183, 184

Long, Leo 228

Lucas, Frank 14, 77

Luftwaffe Enigma 5, 46, 98, 187

MacLean, Donald 230, 233

Matapan, Battle of Cape 6, 131–132

Menzies, Sir Stewart 19, 158, 164, 178, 179, 180, 279

Milner-Barry, Stuart 16, 42–43, 61, 114, 161, 162, 166

Millward, William 72, 129

Mitfords, the 122, 123

Montgomery, General 188, 243

Mountbatten, Earl 172

Muggeridge, Malcolm 32, 239

Murray, Joan 96, 133, 134, 151, 198, 199

Murray, Odette 197

Naval Enigma 38, 48, 74, 84, 96, 100, 120, 133–135, 176, 182, 186, 187

Newman, Professor Max 260, 263, 296, 305

Nicolson, Harold 97

North Africa 134, 176, 188, 243

Payne, Diana 137, 153–154

Pearl Harbor 115, 183, 203

Pears, Peter 252

Petard
HMS 191–192

Philby, Kim 175–176, 180, 229, 230, 233, 239, 241

Pidgeon, Geoffrey 64, 300

Plowman, Diana 27, 135, 138, 139, 143, 190, 249

Polish cryptographers, contribution of 43–47, 76–77

Powell, Michael 250, 252

PQ17 convoy 186

Pressburger, Emeric 250, 252

Priestley, JB 249

Quayle, Sir Anthony 7, 72, 306

Radley, Dr Gordon 268, 269

Rees, David 306

Rejewski, Marian 76, 213

Ridley, Captain 11, 33, 144

Roberts, Captain Jerry 63, 170, 237, 250, 262, 263, 265, 270, 285, 286

“Rods” 43, 73, 131

“Room 40” 22, 39, 40, 41, 158, 168

Rommel, Field Marshal 134, 176, 188, 243

Roosevelt, President 202, 203

Rothschild, Victor 239

Roseveare, Bob 197

Russia: German invasion of 109, 117, 188–189, 228, 233–234; dealings with Ultra 228, 229–239; intercepting Soviet messages 279

Scharnhorst
214

Scherbius, Arthur 41

Schmidt, Hans Thilo 44

Sebag-Montefiore, Ruth 10, 11, 71

Secret Intelligence Service (SIS or MI6) 10, 12, 13, 54, 230, 233

Shark (key) 177, 186, 191, 192

Sinclair, Admiral Sir Hugh 10, 12, 141

Singapore, Fall of 176

Skillen, Hugh 183

Slusser, Robert M 198

Smith, Howard 60–61, 306

Snow, CP 161

Stalin, Josef 41, 189, 232, 234, 238, 239, 312

Stanmore 101, 283

Station ‘X’ 12

Stephenson, Sir William 212

Strachey, Oliver 14, 174, 204

Stripp, Alan 42, 74

Taylor, Colonel Telford 208, 209

Thomas, Edward 167, 187

Tiltman, Colonel John 14, 23, 31, 89, 164, 173, 183, 204, 279

Tirpitz
186, 187, 214

Travis, Commander Edward 3, 31, 78, 100, 157, 161, 172, 178, 179, 181, 204, 207, 209, 278, 279

Trevor-Roper, Hugh (Lord Dacre) 50, 125

Trumpington, Baroness 60, 125–126

“Tunny” codebreaking 250, 260–271

Turing, Alan 6, 16, 17, 18, 32, 47, 48, 54, 59, 73, 76, 77, 78, 84, 85, 90, 93, 95, 96, 97, 100, 126, 133, 134, 144, 146, 159, 161, 162, 171, 182, 190, 191, 198, 199, 205, 206, 207, 242, 259, 260, 263, 264, 266, 292, 293–299, 304

Tutte, W.T. Tutte 260

Twinn, Peter 16, 46, 47, 54, 75, 85, 100, 242

U-110 133

U-33 83–84

U-559 191–192

U-67 177

United States of America, closer co-operation with 202–212

Valentine, Jean 105–106, 124–125, 142, 143, 147, 148–150, 154, 155, 165, 185, 186, 280, 311

Vincent, Professor ERP 23–24

Watkins, Gwen 91, 303, 313, 314

Watkins, Vernon 314

Welchman, Gordon 16, 18, 22, 24, 25, 26, 28, 54, 55, 56, 57, 73, 78, 80, 89, 95, 96, 97, 145, 157, 160, 161, 162, 165, 181, 182, 191, 211, 212, 220, 265, 266, 267, 268, 279, 286, 287

Wilson, Angus 7, 61, 88, 89, 126, 306

Wiles, Maurice 184

Winterbotham, Frederick 19, 93, 107, 114, 115, 310, 311, 320

Woburn Abbey 68, 152, 217

Wylie, Shaun 182, 197, 249

Wynn-Williams, Charles 261, 267

Young, Irene 27, 33, 63, 142, 145, 250

Zygalski sheets 44, 46, 73, 76, 77

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