[FYI] Antiques man guilty of Enigma charge

Renegade renegade at texoma.net
Sat Sep 29 23:37:32 EDT 2001


A> >> The machine was one of only three in the world An antiques dealer has
> > >> admitted handling a stolen code-breaking Enigma machine, worth
> > >> £100,000.
>
> > The machine in question is an Abwehr Enigma, a variant of the basic
> > design.  (There were a fair number of variants, in fact.)
>
>Are you sure about this?

The rarest of all though, are the bombes. There is only one left.  The rest 
are at the bottom of the Chesapeake Bay. Maybe Woods Hole will go pull them 
up someday.




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