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Re: Gaelic Code Talkers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Stewart)
Sat Oct 5 16:27:23 2002
Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2002 16:49:06 -0700
To: bear <bear@sonic.net>
From: Bill Stewart <bill.stewart@pobox.com>
Cc: Bill Frantz <frantz@pwpconsult.com>,
cryptography@wasabisystems.com
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.40.0210030747030.16040-100000@newbolt.sonic.net
>
There's at least one Celtic-related code story from Bletchley Park,
though its not a Gaelic or code-talker one.
One of the intelligence honchos was referred to as "C"
rather than by name (a practice later picked up by James Bond stories.)
One Scottish worker there didn't follow the practice,
and was chewed out for it, and replied along the lines of
"Well, Mr Menzies, if you don't want people to refer to you by
your family name, you shouldn't be wearing a kilt in your family tartan"....
(I think the source was Robin Winks's book....)
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