[Milsurplus] Code traffic intercepts....

[Richard Brunner]

Hue Miller wrote:

>If German U-boats waited off the Eastern Coast of USA,
>they were possibly close enuff to monitor harbor
>communications in the MF band. I would wonder why to 
>a  U-boat's cramped quarters would be added a 
>crytologic team, when the heavy lifting could possibly 
>be done back at Kriesmarine headquarters .......
>
Good question, but they did indeed have B-Dienst people on some subs.
Maybe low level encryption is easy to break, or they may merely have 
been people proficient in Englisch.

Richard, AA1P