BBC History Magazine

Secrets and spies

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1 Bletchley Park, the Buckingham­shire mansion that housed Britain’s Government Code and Cypher School

2 Ronald Seth was a British spy who became a German double agent

3 Harro Schulze-Boysen, a Luftwaffe officer and member of the ‘Red Orchestra’, fed informatio­n to the Soviets

4 Noted historian Hugh Trevor-Roper monitored the German Abwehr for MI6

5 Smoke belches from a vessel torpedoed by a U-boat. Decipherin­g German messages helped stem attacks

6 Bill Tutte, whose work at Bletchley Park was pivotal in understand­ing and breaking the Lorenz encryption system

7 The Lorenz Schlüsselz­usatz (SZ) was Germany’s most powerful cipher machine

8 A member of the Women’s Royal Naval Service operates a Colossus computer at Bletchley Park in 1943

9 Soviet superspy Richard Sorge, who infiltrate­d the German embassy in Tokyo

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