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Re: Gaelic Code Talkers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Kelsey)
Thu Oct 3 16:36:09 2002
Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2002 09:11:13 -0400
To: Bill Frantz <frantz@pwpconsult.com>,
cryptography@wasabisystems.com
From: John Kelsey <kelsey.j@ix.netcom.com>
In-Reply-To: <v03110705b9c115abbaf5@[165.247.207.33]>
At 02:37 PM 10/2/02 -0700, Bill Frantz wrote:
>While vacationing in Scotland this summer I had a conversation with a
>gentleman who said that the British had used Scottish Gaelic speakers as
>"code talkers" during World War II. He added that they were not used in
>the European theatre, as there were too many Irish Gaelic speakers who
>sympathized with the Axis.
>
>A quick glance at Kahn didn't turn up an information on these code talkers.
>Has anyone else heard anything about it?
There's a possible reference in _Cryptonomicon_, but I honestly thought it
was a joke....
>Cheers - Bill
--John
--John Kelsey, kelsey.j@ix.netcom.com // jkelsey@certicom.com
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