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Bletchley Park remembers 'forgotten genius' Gordon Welchman

jonathan keith

Re: BBC programme

As far as I could make out from the (excellent) BBC doc, it was Welchman's ideas and work on Traffic Analysis, as opposed to code-breaking, that the UK and US governments wanted suppressed, because it was TA that provided the basis of GCHQ and NSA's most powerful tools (and still does, in many ways).

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