Intelligence Insight No. 009

Bletchley Park

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4.8 • 177 Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2020

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

June 2020

The breaking of the German Enigma machine wasn’t just down to the Codebreakers at Bletchley Park and it didn’t start with the outbreak of World War Two. It’s a story of international cooperation, spanning many years and who better to tell it than the nephew of Alan Turing.

In this, the first of two episodes, we return to 2018 when Bletchley Park hosted representatives of the Polish Embassy in London and families of Polish codebreakers, for the launch of Dermot Turing’s book, X, Y and Z: The Real Story of How Enigma Was Broken.

Based on his own original research and newly released documents, both in the book and this exclusively recorded talk, Dermot tells the story of how the French, British and Polish secret services came together to unravel the secrets of the Enigma machine.

He is introduced by His Excellency the Ambassador of Republic of Poland, Dr Arkady Rzegocki.

Image: ©Bletchley Park Trust 2020

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0:00.0	Top Secret for Senior Officer, immediate.
0:14.0	Decipher and pass to all relevant sections.
0:19.0	12th of June, Intelligence Insight, number 009
0:23.6	Welcome to this Bletchley Park Intelligence Insight.
0:29.6	The breaking of the German Enigma Machine
0:31.6	wasn't just down to the code-breakers at Bletchley Park
0:34.6	and didn't start with the outbreak of World War II.
0:41.4	It's a story of international cooperation spanning many years and who better to tell it than the nephew of Alan Turing.
0:45.8	In this, the first of two episodes, we returned to 2018
0:49.5	when Bletchley Park hosted representatives of the Polish Embassy in London
0:53.4	and families of the Polish codebreakers
0:55.9	for the launch of Dermott Turing's book, X, Y and Z,
1:00.0	the real story of how Enigma was broken.
1:03.4	Based on his own original research and newly released documents,
1:07.2	both in the book and this exclusively recorded talk,
1:10.5	Dermott tells the story of how the French, British and Polish secret services
1:14.4	came together to unravel the secrets of the Enigma Machine.
1:19.2	He's introduced by His Excellency, the Ambassador of the Republic of Poland, Dr. Akadi Zagotsky.
1:35.4	Your Excellency, ladies and gentlemen, good afternoon.
1:40.9	My name's Ian Stand, and I'm the chief executive of the Bletchley Park Trust, and it's my pleasure here to welcome you,
1:44.5	particularly those have been travelling from far and wide to get here today for this important event. We're delighted to welcome you to Bletchley Park for the launch of Dermott-Turing's new book,
1:49.5	X, Y, Z, the real story of how Enigma was broken. We're particularly pleased to welcome back to the
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