[Cryptography] Crypto AG and CIA project exposed

[Phillip Hallam-Baker]

On Fri, Feb 14, 2020 at 12:10 PM Richard Outerbridge <outer at interlog.com>
wrote:

>
> > On 2020-02-13 (44), at 16:23:13, Peter Fairbrother <peter at tsto.co.uk>
> wrote:
> >
> > On 11/02/2020 20:51, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote:
>
> [ …. ]
>
> > Some of the early Crypto AG technology was similar to Enigma. It has
> been said that the secrecy about the wartime breaking of Enigma was
> especially longlasting because of the Crypto AG/CIA-NSA-BND link, so maybe
> GCHQ had some knowledge and access too.
>
> Didn’t this all get started by the UK selling captured ENIGMA machines to
> their African colonies?
>
> At least, that’s the rumor I last heard.  And that American Army Officers
> were under standing orders to
> destroy with a hand grenade any suspected captured ENIGMA device during
> the end game of WW2.
> __outer
>

No captured ENIGMA machines were given to African colonies. The British
destroyed ENIGMA machines that were captured as well.

The East Germans kept using the ENIGMA though. Right up to the publication
of the Hut 6 story...

The beginning of Crypto-AG in the mid 50s is around the time that the
British Empire was in its final stage of collapse.
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