Before Bletchley Park: The Codebreakers of the First World War by Paul Gannon

Author:Paul Gannon [Gannon, Paul]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780750992466
Google: YKCbzQEACAAJ
Amazon: B08M95N7V4
Published: 2020-06-15T13:23:43.090000+00:00

Fraser had joined MI1(b) in February 1916 and was to prove to be a prolific codebreaker and an accomplished linguist, having knowledge of some twenty-one languages at the end of the war. He broke or helped to break Greek, Spanish, Argentine, Uruguayan, Turkish, Swiss, Swedish, Norwegian, Brazilian, Dutch and Vatican codes before he left in 1919, going on to become a professor in 1921.

The Greek code book was to be his first major achievement. Hay recalled:

The chief difficulty was [that …] we had no means of knowing in what language the messages were written. The natural hypothesis was that they were written in Greek. After working for many weeks on this assumption Fraser concluded that the text must not be in Greek but in French. In June when I was home for a few days leave, Fraser sent me a telegram: ‘Pillars of Hercules have fallen’. It turned out that the Greeks used a number of different codebooks, some in Greek, some in French. All these were reconstructed.9

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