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Old 05-13-2020, 05:49   #6
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Morse code radio operations also played a large toll in the compromise of missions, known drop zones or locations of friendly forces.
German RDF capability didn't initially get the respect it surely deserved. Those folks & their methods were very, VERY good.

That "senior British intelligence officer" that made the suggestion to FDR was likely William Stephenson, Churchill's go-between to Roosevelt. A good overview of BSC activities that dovetails all this in the period is William Stevenson's "A Man Called Intrepid."
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