[Milsurplus] German decrypts

J Forster jfor at quik.com
Sun Oct 5 08:47:46 EDT 2008


Could the Germans have been reading low-level or commercial codes? I
would seriously doubt the really secure stuff would have been widely
used as doing that would have greatly increased the risk it would be
compromised.

FWIW,
-John

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Ralph Cameron wrote:

> David (Poco) White , W1FZJ of Cherry Hill Mass, was ain intercept op
> in Puerto Rico during the war and fluent in German. He told me before
> he passed away that as a war historian he trnslated log books from
> German subs that sat off the coast of New York and regularly read
> American naval traffic with the result convoys were ambushed soon
> after leaving the U.S. coast. He provided translated logs to the
> Canadian naval historian which pinpointed which subs were responsible
> for  sinking Canadian vessels. i.e. the Germans had their own
> cryptographic unit aboard. RalphVE3BBM
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