Word: coded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After 35 years of officially imposed silence, Winterbotham reveals in The Ultra Secret that British intelligence did crack the code. From 1939 onward Churchill and later Roosevelt, Eisenhower and other Allied leaders were virtually reading over Hitler's shoulder. The whole system of deciphering Enigma's signals and relaying the intelligence was called the Ultra Operation. It sometimes produced translated copies of Hitler's orders to his generals within an hour of their original transmission. Little wonder that Churchill once called Ultra "my most secret weapon...
...message itself was succinct: a three-minute transmission in mathematical code describing the make-up of the solar system, the inhabitants of earth, the present world population and the double helix of the heredity molecule DNA. The signal was transmitted last week by a team of U.S. scientists from the giant radio telescope at Arecibo, Puerto Rico, a vast antenna 1,000 ft. in diameter lining a natural bowl formed by hills. The target was Messier 13, a cluster of some 300,000 stars located on the remote fringe of the Milky Way. Addressed simply to "Occupants" of any planets...
...have a country home," says Jones, "but I would never go there, of course, because I don't like the country." He thinks of mugging "like chess." He remembers each victim precisely and prefers to work in the daytime because other "people are always rushing somewhere." In his private code, attacking women and old men is out. A middle-aged man going to fat is best, especially if he is "looking everywhere"?as people tend to do when carrying a lot of cash. Jones uses a knife rather than a gun. He watches in banks for big withdrawals, trails...
...exotic mode of operating, including in his letters lengths of red and yellow wire tied in a twisted knot to certify their authenticity. He negotiated with the FBI by quacking out his instructions on a duck caller over a citizens' band radio frequency in Morse-like code. It was the radio that finally did him in. An FBI agent monitoring the channel traced the signal to a 1968 Plymouth passing through southeast Portland and arrested Heesch and his wife Sheila...
Shot Dead. Finally, Boyle's leadership was seriously challenged in a 1969 election by Joseph ("Jock") Yablonski, a member of the U.M.W. executive board. Yablonski lost the election, but for daring to defy the leadership's code of blind loyalty, he, his wife and daughter were brutally gunned to death in their beds on New Year's morning 1970 -on the orders, it later came out, of Tony Boyle, who was eventually convicted of murder and is now in prison. The murders sent shock waves of indignation across the coal fields. Shortly afterward, Miller, who had risen...