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Nazi Codebreaking with Betty Webb

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How to Paraphrase Unencrypted Messages

It was my job to paraphrase. And so when we hoped that when these messages went on to the commanders in the field, if the jobs had picked up, they wouldn't realize that we'd actually decoded their messages. So you would look at a message from a Japanese field commander who said, right, we're moving, we're going to attack the Infantic Hima. And you would set your decision as to what you wrote, to sort of make it all subtle and suggestive. That's a very serious job. It was, yes, and I did that in the Pentagon as well. Only a short time, because this was... I went out after the war in Europe

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