[Milsurplus] German decrypts

[John Hutchins]

John -

Yep BINGO!  -  There were different levels of cyphers and cyphers were 
changed frequently, well documented in historical texts.

Hutch



J Forster wrote:
> 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.* *Ralph**VE3BBM*
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