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118 - The Codebreakers of Bletchley Park

The WW2 Podcast

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The History of GCHQ

Bletchley proved itself so convincingly that the establishment of what we now know as GCHQ followed fairly rapidly on from it. Most of the code breakers actually moved out of Bletchley Park and into one of the new stations they built in north London during the war basically for one of the bomb operations. They put the remaining code breakers including some of their World War II recruits knew folks who had got managerial or co-breaking skills which you know had not really been there in the pre-war operation.

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