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  1. davidbfpo
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    The missing dimension; UK SIGINT & Operation Barbarossa – a pointer

    In late 2025 I read a gifted paperback: From: ‘The Women Behind The Few: The Women’s Auxiliary Air Force and British Intelligence During The...
    Thread by: davidbfpo, Jan 4, 2026, 2 replies, in forum: Top Secret
  2. davidbfpo
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    Think your ancestor might have worked in intelligence? Where to start your research

    Advice from The National Archives (TNA) today; their explanation:We often hear from visitors to our MI5: Official Secrets exhibition that their...
    Thread by: davidbfpo, Oct 2, 2025, 1 replies, in forum: Searching for Someone & Military Genealogy
  3. davidbfpo
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    Dire Straits: sinking the Japanese cruiser Haguro May 1945

    A Bletchley Park podcast (1hr) and their summary:In May 1945 the Royal Navy fought its last surface action against the Japanese fleet, sinking the...
    Thread by: davidbfpo, Jul 4, 2025, 4 replies, in forum: War Against Japan
  4. davidbfpo
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    Bletchley Park: Vengeance from the Skies

    From a BP a pointer to a free March 2025 podcast:In 1943 there seemed to be few mysteries left unsolved for Bletchley Park. But by the middle of...
    Thread by: davidbfpo, Apr 8, 2025, 0 replies, in forum: Top Secret
  5. Grasmere
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    "Betty" Charlotte Elizabeth WEBB (née Vine-Stevens), MBE , Bletchley Codebreaker dies aged 101

    Very sad news today of the passing of Betty Webb, Bletchley codebreaker, at the age of 101. I recall some great interviews from her in recent...
    Thread by: Grasmere, Apr 1, 2025, 2 replies, in forum: Top Secret
  6. Maggie Boswell
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    248567 Captain John Edward NEEDHAM, Intelligence Corps

    I have compiled a list of abbreviations found in my father's Service Record (he was in the Intelligence Corps, in the British Army, during WWII);...
    Thread by: Maggie Boswell, Jan 28, 2025, 6 replies, in forum: Searching for Someone & Military Genealogy
  7. Chris C
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    Bletchley Park: Hut 3

    Hi all, How many personnel were in Hut 3 at any one time? Has anyone read much about this hut? Any pointers on books/chapters that discuss its...
    Thread by: Chris C, Nov 23, 2024, 7 replies, in forum: Top Secret
  8. davidbfpo
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    UK planning for a post-WW2 war with the USSR: a few questions

    Following an offline chat with a "lurker" about Soviet spying in the UK, which allegedly gained access to the work at Bletchely Park or its...
    Thread by: davidbfpo, Nov 9, 2024, 9 replies, in forum: Top Secret
  9. davidbfpo
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    Bletchley Park - The Forgotten Army

    A new online presentation (1h 35m; from 31/7/2024) and the summary states:In early 1942 one of the most disastrous defeats of the war saw British...
    Thread by: davidbfpo, Aug 6, 2024, 0 replies, in forum: Top Secret
  10. davidbfpo
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    Colossus: The World's First Large-Scale Electronic Digital Computer

    A new offering from Bletchley Park, five short videos on this development and their text states: On 18 January 1944, Bletchley Park took receipt...
    Thread by: davidbfpo, Feb 13, 2024, 0 replies, in forum: Top Secret
  11. davidbfpo
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    Two from Bletchley Park: Arctic Convoys and Italy

    An event, a lecture @ BP, £15 (excludes BP itself), on 25/11/23 3pm:Bletchley Park’s resident Research historian, Dr David Kenyon, will be...
    Thread by: davidbfpo, Nov 10, 2023, 1 replies, in forum: Top Secret
  12. davidbfpo
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    BP and the Sicilian Deception Operation Husky Sicily

    Released 31/7/23 and not yet listened to the podcast (1h 12m). An alert today from BP:In 1943, when the guns fell silent in Tunisia, a lull fell...
    Thread by: davidbfpo, Aug 4, 2023, 11 replies, in forum: Top Secret
  13. davidbfpo
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    St Erth's (Cornwall) 'best-kept secret'

    A BBC News story two days ago and a few sentences:Mike Griffiths unearthed the secret existence of the MI6 outstation in St Erth when his late...
    Thread by: davidbfpo, Jun 1, 2023, 1 replies, in forum: Top Secret
  14. davidbfpo
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    British SIGINT in Palestine 1945-1948

    I have read a little on this issue, but not on GCHQ's work so the linked article is a bonus - even if the title is rather grand: Israel at 75: how...
    Thread by: davidbfpo, May 11, 2023, 0 replies, in forum: Postwar
  15. davidbfpo
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    Luftwaffe irresponsibility and of an almost wilful prejudice by BP

    The latest offering by Tony Comer, ex-GCHQ historian, and his introduction:Perhaps it is the way in which the release of new records has added to...
    Thread by: davidbfpo, May 8, 2023, 0 replies, in forum: Top Secret
  16. CL1
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    King Charles III - Coronation, changes in cypher, coinage, etc.

    King Charles will make a speech to the nation this evening. States 6pm Long Live the King
    Thread by: CL1, Sep 9, 2022, 133 replies, in forum: The Lounge Bar
  17. davidbfpo
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    From Warsaw to Bletchley Park: The International Effort To Break Enigma

    An in-person or online event @ National Army Museum, on 12 May 2023, 12.00pm and the speaker is:Dr Thomas Cheetham is Research Officer at...
    Thread by: davidbfpo, Apr 27, 2023, 0 replies, in forum: Top Secret
  18. Parents at Bletchley
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    Bletchley and Nuremberg

    Hallo, my name is Di. I'm researching my parents Oliver Charles Berthoud and Celia Margaret Berthoud nèe Bevan, both of whom served at Bletchley...
    Thread by: Parents at Bletchley, Mar 22, 2023, 74 replies, in forum: User Introductions
  19. Steen Ammentorp
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    6305 Major-General Sir Stewart Graham MENZIES, KCB, KCMG, DSO, MC, Life Guards

    Hi, I am trying to establish the career of Major-General Sir Stewart Graham Menzies, and I am a bit puzzled. He retired from the Army as a...
    Thread by: Steen Ammentorp, Mar 10, 2023, 3 replies, in forum: Higher Formations
  20. davidbfpo
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    Professor Max Newman: a new look from Bletchley Park

    A free to use 1h40m podcast from Bletchley Park last month:The breaking of the German Lorenz cipher system was one of BP's most complex technical...
    Thread by: davidbfpo, Mar 10, 2023, 0 replies, in forum: Top Secret
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