Luftwaffe irresponsibility and of an almost wilful prejudice by BP

davidbfpo · May 8, 2023

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 the complexity which has led to its not being retold. Just one part of the Sigint story might serve to illustrate this. It is a story of gross German Air Force irresponsibility on the one hand, and of an almost wilful prejudice on the part of the authorities at Bletchley Park, and concerns the Traffic Analysis (TA) effort against the LN Versuchs Regiment, the Luftwaffe unit which carried out trials of new communications equipment. (This is a much abridged version of Section K of HW 43/82: The Sixta History, which was written by Mrs W E A Evans in April – May 1945.)
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Link: Sigint Historian: Mistakes on Both Sides: Competing Ineptitudes

A "taster" passage:

It should be realised that to take only one example, all the information on the performance of V1 which was possessed by the Cabinet Committee on Flying Bombs before the operational launchings was derived from low-grade cipher and TA on the Baltic Group. The significant cover on this group was at intercept stations not controlled by Hut 3 and was obtained elsewhere through the Old Boy network. This is a disquieting thought.
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