Traffic Analysis: Australia led the way

davidbfpo · Mar 9, 2023

By an oversight I have not caught the latest posts by Tony Comer (ex-GCHQ historian) and so here is a surprise for me. This is from the concluding passage:

Perhaps as important as the way in which communications security wasn't properly managed by Bletchley Park because there was nobody in the leadership to speak up for it, GC&CS's belief in the primacy of cryptanalysis for signals intelligence production, with only a handmaiden's role for TA, was a drag on the performance of the organisation as a whole, one that both limited the production of current intelligence and didn't promote an analytical mindset applicable to more than just one target.
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Link: Sigint Historian: And There's More ...

Before that was a longer article on:

It is 59 years since David Irving's The Mare's Nest was published, and it is surprising that the massive release of records from the Second World War hasn't prompted a new look at the German development of cruise and ballistic missiles. My particular interest is, of course, the intelligence story: the way in which Sigint, Humint, Imint and Techint were fused to develop an understanding of what these weapons were and how – whether – they could be countered.
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Link: Sigint Historian: Mistakes on Both Sides: Competing Ineptitudes

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