[Cryptography] "?The intelligence coup of the century?"

[Henry Baker]

At 09:48 AM 2/12/2020, Rick Smith wrote:
>I have to wonder how this relationship played with the Five Eyes. They have to have either known or suspected it. If they suspected it, then they no doubt tried to exploit it.

If you read the article, it appears that many of the flaws were
pretty obvious to untrained eyes -- albeit clever eyes.

Forget about the Five Eyes...

The Soviets (& perhaps the Chinese) were laughing their
butts off, as they were probably reading everything, as well.

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I was intrigued by the use of the 'useful idiot' Swede
Widman instead of Arne Beurling (who apparently single-
handedly broke the German codes in WWII).  Perhaps Beurling
wouldn't go along?

Q: Wouldn't Beurling have noticed any problems with these
machines?  Perhaps he was never asked, or never looked?
(According to Wikipedia, Beurling died in 1986.)